During our most recent mission (Spring 2013), Dr. John Van Aalst led a project in the West Bank to operate on 10 year old Oday Daraghmeh from Toubas, West Bank. The three surgeries were performed in order to give Oday a normal ear and to restore normal hearing, as he had microtia, a congenital deformity in which the pinna is underdeveloped.
The team of volunteer doctors was mostly from the United States, as Palestinian doctors in the area are not well-trained in plastic surgeries due to a lack of experience, resources and appropriate facilities to address such medical concerns. The team, led by Van Aalst, is training dozens of Palestinian surgeons in order to increase their competence and decrease their reliance on foreign doctors and/or Israeli hospitals.
For more details on Oday's operation: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2013/06/02/Palestinian-children-with-ear-deformities-have-life-changing-operations.html
The team of volunteer doctors was mostly from the United States, as Palestinian doctors in the area are not well-trained in plastic surgeries due to a lack of experience, resources and appropriate facilities to address such medical concerns. The team, led by Van Aalst, is training dozens of Palestinian surgeons in order to increase their competence and decrease their reliance on foreign doctors and/or Israeli hospitals.
For more details on Oday's operation: http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2013/06/02/Palestinian-children-with-ear-deformities-have-life-changing-operations.html
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