Interplast Australia & New Zealand (Interplast) will visit the Mt Hagen General Hospital from 8 to 15 February 2015 to facilitate plastic and reconstructive surgical services and training. The team will be led by Dr Simon Donahoe and will include three plastic surgeons, one anaesthetist and two nurses. The Interplast medical team will conduct a consultation clinic on Sunday February 8 at 9:00am in the outpatient’s clinic at the Mt Hagen General Hospital. Plastic and reconstructive surgery will be performed at the hospital from 8-13 February. Patients with conditions including cleft lip and palate, scarring from burns, hand injuries and tumours are urged to contact the Surgical Unit at the Mt Hagen General Hospital for an appointment. Please note patients with common skin diseases or cosmetic conditions will be excluded from this consultation. Interplast medical teams have been visiting PNG since 1985 to provide free surgical intervention programs to relieve people of disability. To date 5094 consultations and 2541 life-changing procedures have been conducted in PNG. The 2015 Mt Hagen activity will be the 88th Interplast visit to PNG. Source: Interplast Australia & New Zealand (Interplast)
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 02:25:50 +0000
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