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147 KIDS NOW SMILE AFTER SURGICAL MISSION

Tuesday 27th of November 2012

SILAY CITY,Negros Occidental, November 27 (PIA6) - - The Operation Smile Medical-Surgical Negros mission in Silay City recently gave new smiles and hope to 147 children with cleft lip and palate deformities. Operation Smile is an international program that provides free reconstructive surgery to indigent children and adults born with cleft lip and palate, and other facial deformities. The mission ran from November 9 to 17 at the Teresita L. Jalandoni Provincial Hospital in Silay City, where a medical team of 60 volunteers from U.S.A., Sweden, Italy, Canada, United Kingdom, Kenya, China, Australia and the Philippin...

KORONADAL CITY, South Cotabato, Oct. 22 (PIA) -- Approximately 5,000 to 8,000 residents of South Cotabato and neighboring areas would be served in a medical mission that provincial officials here tagged as “so far the biggest” in the province’s history. The five-day dental mission, which starts on Friday, October 26, is spearheaded by the provincial government in partnership with charity groups Operation Smile Philippines and the Dental Seminars and...

PATIN-AY, Prosperidad, Agusan del Sur, Sept 20 (PIA) -- The 401st Infantry Brigade based in Awa, New Leyte, Prosperidad will be conducting “operation smile” for people born with hare lip, as part of the brigade’s social obligation to the Filipino people. 401st Brigade Commander Col. Romeo Gan said the operation is free of any charges and will cater patients six months old and above. “We, in the 401st Infantry Brigade, are calling for parents who have children with harelip or anybody, y...

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Mar

2012

Groups continue relief operations for quake victims

NEGROS OCCIDENTAL, March 19 (PIA6) -- Donations continue to pour for the victims of the February 6 quake which left many Guihulngan City residents homeless. The Parents and Teachers Association of the St. Benilde School in Bacolod City donated 18 big boxes of relief goods with assorted used clothing, and other miscellaneous items which were turned over to the 11th IB, which in turn distributed the relief goods to the affected families at the evacu...
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Feb

2012

WESCOM brings operation smile to Palawan

ISABELA CITY, Basilan, Feb 7 (PIA) – The Western Command (WESCOM) in partnership with Cranio Facial Surgery Foundation of the Philippines (CFSFP) and Palawan Provincial Health Office (PHO) will offer free surgical operations to the Palaweños with cleft lip and cleft palate. The 6th Civil Relations Group of the AFP reported that registration, screening and interview of the patients were held last January 23 to 25, 2012 at Camp General Artemio Ricarte Station Hospita...