The days of free cleft lip and palate surgeries at the High Specialty Regional Hospital of the Yucatan Peninsula (Hraepy) were announced yesterday for the benefit of patients who, even if they are not selected, will receive language, psychology or dental services.
At the event, Mauricio Rojas Londoño, executive director of Operation Smile, AC—which promotes medical care—revealed that one in every 750 newborns has this genetic malformation.
The hospital and the association joined forces to carry out the program within the framework of the 54th. Congress of the Association of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery.
“We have a goal of giving away 100 surgeries to people with cleft lip and palate; today and tomorrow starting at 8 am we will be waiting for you at the hospital,” said Rojas Londoño.
No prior registration or Social Security is required. “We assess without distinction of age, although it is better if we serve younger people; You can operate on people over 70 years of age, we have 120 people volunteering as doctors.”
Among those who are evaluated, candidates for surgery will be chosen, who will be notified the day following tomorrow. The surgeries will be from Friday the 8th to Tuesday the 12th.
In the selection, those who are not in a position to undergo the operation will be discarded, for which the age standard and health status will be followed.
They will prioritize cases that have not received help. Once the selection is completed, surgeries will be scheduled, 20 to 25 daily.
People from all over the Peninsula are expected to attend, since people from Campeche and Quintana Roo have been contacted.
In the private sector, cleft lip and palate surgery has an approximate price of 60,000 pesos, so this type of campaign represents help for those who do not have such resources and considering that health is a universal right.
Jesús Antonio Tut Bojórquez, Medical Director of Hraepy, participated in the meeting with the press; Pedro Córdoba Quintal, surgical director of Hraepy; Verónica Josefina Cetina Arjona, president of the DIF; Bertha Torres Gómez, president of the Association of Plastic, Aesthetic and Reconstructive Surgery.
For those who are not selected as candidates, they will be offered some surgical treatment channeling them to speech therapy, psychology, dentistry, this being a prior preparation for the next campaign.— MEGAMEDIA
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2024-05-10 00:40:43
