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Visiting team performs corrective surgeries at GPHC
The visiting HERO team
Children with lower limb deformities were the focus of attention when HERO doctors paid a recent visit to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC). HERO is the acronym for the Health Education and Relief Organisation.
According to a statement disseminated by the Public Relations Department of the GPHC yesterday, a team of doctors from the organization was able to perform corrective surgeries on a number of children.
The organization, it was revealed, started visiting Guyana twice a year since 2006 to do outreaches and perform surgeries on children with “club foot.” Clubfoot is a birth defect of one foot or both feet which is evident at birth, a condition that the team specializes in correcting. Children with lower extremity problems were also given attention.
However, the annual HERO visits paused from 2011 until the team returned this year. Member of HERO, Dr. John Mitchell, noted that the organization now plans to pick up from where it left off and will continue visiting as it previously did.
Over the last four days, the team from HERO has performed at least 20 procedures on about 12 individuals since some patients’ required two operations. Surgeries were performed on patients as young as below one year of age, to adults who were born with chronic deformities that were never treated. The surgeries were performed with assistance from doctors at the GPHC.
Pediatric Orthopedic Surgeon Dr. Claude Scott informed that so far the patients are recovering well and said, “We have had no complications, those who were ready for discharge have already been sent home.”
Dr. Mitchell also stated that the response received has been very favourable and the parents have been very grateful. He added that the team has had complete support from the hospital at every level from the senior administration to the surgical attendees.
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