I started in the surgical department today and it was a great day, I started the morning in the ward, rounding with a physician on about 7 patients, 4 had come in with open complex fractures from motorcycle accidents, another fell off a couple of stacked boxes. There was a newborn who had a colostomy surgery after an open abdominal exploration for suspicion of malrotation or vulvulus. The last patient is a one year old who at 7 months old was somehow burned. Now his face is nothing but scar tissues.
After rounds, I went and observed 2 surgeries, a cleft lip repair of a 6 month old and a palate repair of an 18 year old. The surgeon was very friendly and eager to answer any questions.He does these repair every morning from Monday to Thursday and consult and follow ups on Friday. He does about 200 of these repairs a year and completely free for the patients. The funding is from Smile Train, an NGO that helps many countries provide cleft surgery for free.
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