Operations Help Children With Cleft Palates to SmileWith the help of charity surgery over the past ten years, 5,800 Chinese children with cleft palates have been able to speak and smile like normal kids.Hundreds of medical experts and program volunteers from ten Chinese cities and the United States attended a ceremony held Friday in this capital of east China's Jiangsu Province, marking the tenth anniversary of the initiation of "Operation Smile China", which is under the support of "Operation Smile International," an international non-profit volunteer organization. Since 1991, Operation Smile China (OSC) has carried out inspections free of charge of more than 8,900 Chinese children born with the genetic deformity. Operation Smile International has provided the operations to more than 50,000 children in 22 countries and regions since it was established by U.S. surgeons in 1982. With one million yuan (about 120,000 U.S. dollars) donated from a Hong Kong-based foundation for Operation Smile China, China has set up an Operation Smile Center at the Gulou Hospital in Nanjing to expand its services in China. |
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