Operation Taghoy treats 53 cleft lip, palate patientsBY BOY RYAN B. ZABAL / Panay News
KALIBO, Aklan – Fifty three patients were the recipients of Operation Taghoy medical mission at the Dr. Rafael S. Tumbokon Memorial Hospital from February 23 to 27 here.
Melrose Lunn, outreach volunteer of Uplift Internationale, said the Operation Taghoy (a Filipino word for whistle) is an annual mission to the Philippines to provide reparative surgical care to poor, rural children born with facial deformities.
The one-week humanitarian mission is an international partnership/project of Rotary Club of Kalibo, Uplift Internationale and Rotary Club of Wheatridge from Denver, Colorado.
It had the support of the provincial government of Aklan, the Rotary Club of Metro Kalibo, Rotary Club of Forbes Park Makati, Philippine Airlines and Philippine Airlines Foundation, Aklan Medical Society, Aklan Dental Society, the Aklan tri-media and other Allied Medical Society.
Thirty nine surgeons, anesthesiologists, speech therapists, dentists, nurses from Uplift Internationale provided medical and surgical care for cleft lip and palate children from ages 1-15 year old.
Lunn, current president of Rotary Club of Kalibo, said nurses and speech therapists from England also visited the Kalibo's Stimulation and Therapeutic Activity to donate toys, clothes and books to handicapped children between their medical mission with Uplift Internationale.Uplift Internationale focuses its activities solely in the Philippines where the incidence among impoverished families in rural areas is high, and appropriate care is unavailable.
Dr. Jaime Yrastorza (DMD), president of Uplift Internationale, has been doing this mission for almost 20 years now for the children in the Philippines , particularly in the Visayas.
“Our mission is to deliver mending care to children born with facial deformity, one child at a time. In the years that Uplift Internationale has focused on its goal, the recipient-children with faces of ridicule and shame have received a life-changing gift of a more “normal” face with hope to dream of a more promising future," he said.
Uplift Internationale aims to give a life-changing gift to children with facial deformities by mending faces... one child at a time.
Thirty nine surgeons, anesthesiologists, speech therapists, dentists, nurses from Uplift Internationale provided medical and surgical care for cleft lip and palate children from ages 1-15 year old.
Lunn, current president of Rotary Club of Kalibo, said nurses and speech therapists from England also visited the Kalibo's Stimulation and Therapeutic Activity to donate toys, clothes and books to handicapped children between their medical mission with Uplift Internationale.Uplift Internationale focuses its activities solely in the Philippines where the incidence among impoverished families in rural areas is high, and appropriate care is unavailable.
Dr. Jaime Yrastorza (DMD), president of Uplift Internationale, has been doing this mission for almost 20 years now for the children in the Philippines , particularly in the Visayas.
“Our mission is to deliver mending care to children born with facial deformity, one child at a time. In the years that Uplift Internationale has focused on its goal, the recipient-children with faces of ridicule and shame have received a life-changing gift of a more “normal” face with hope to dream of a more promising future," he said.
Uplift Internationale aims to give a life-changing gift to children with facial deformities by mending faces... one child at a time.
It's so nice to hear news like this. Private people with the goodness of their heart help the unfortunate in our society. I can only hope if the local government can match these charities...and I don't mean 100 pesos during election. 100 pesos which already belong to the people in the first place. People sitting in the provincial government should take a few minutes and look at all the wealth they have robbed the province and give some back. Boracay gives so much million to the province...where did all those millions go...not in our road, not in our people...I wonder where? Someone knows...
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