Hong Ngoc Hospital, Facing the World offer free surgeries for disfigured children

The hospital’s annual charity activity helps to open a new chapter for Vietnamese children who were born with physical deformities.

The team of doctors provided medical check-ups and identified the profiles of candidate patients at Hong Ngoc Hospital. Surgery will be arranged for children whose health conditions meet the necessary requirements. After surgery, they will receive optimal postoperative recovery from Hong Ngoc Hospital for between one and two months for each case.

Leading doctors who are in charge of the program include:

Doctor Niall Kirkpatrick is a consultant plastic surgeon and head of the Craniofacial Unit at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital. As Medical Director for the Facing the World charity, he has travelled to more than 20 countries around the world, bringing smiles to countless children with facial disfigurements.

Simon Eccles is a Secretary and Surgeon with Facing the World. He has extensive experience as a craniofacial surgeon at Chelsea and Westminster Hospital for many years. He is a past president of the plastic surgery section of the Royal Society of Medicine.

Doctor Nguyen Nguyet Nha is the former deputy head of the Facial Plastic Surgery Department of Hanoi Central Pediatrics Hospital.  Doctor Nha formerly studied and worked at Changgung Memorial Hospital in Taiwan and at Paris VI University.

She has been working with many foreign medical teams, such as a US group under the “Operation Smile” program and a Dutch Interplast group, to provide humanitarian surgery for disadvantaged patients with jaw defects in eight northern provinces and cities.

As a leading private hospital in the north which operates to international standards, Hong Ngoc Hospital desires to bring high quality healthcare services to people and join hands with the community to build a happy society.

In this aim, the hospital arranges annual collaborations with world leading charity organizations such as Facing the World from the UK and R.I.C.E from the US to perform free surgeries for disadvantaged children with birth defects.

Through the program, the hospital hopes to set up a specialized channel to receive information about disfigured children with financial difficulties and work with benefactors to generate a wave of donations from across the country.