From www.fairfield-sun.com –
Alfred Sofer, MD FACS from Plastic Surgery Center & Medical Spa of Fairfield, has just returned from a pro-bono medical mission, traveling to the North African country of Morocco with the nonprofit organization Operation Smile. Dr. Sofer volunteered his time to operate on both children and adults with cleft lips, cleft palates, and facial deformities. While there, Sofer and only five other surgeons from around the world, performed almost 175 free surgeries.
With a vision to provide “exceptional surgical care” to all who suffer from a cleft lip or cleft palate, Operation Smile was founded in 1982 and has successfully performed more than 220,000 free surgeries in more than 60 countries around the world, serving every continent except Antarctica. With the goal of bettering the health and overall quality of life of their patients, they rely on their large network of credentialed medical volunteers from more than 80 countries to succeed. According to Operation Smile, more than two billion people worldwide have no access to any type of surgical care, while even more lack access to safe and timely medical procedures. Additionally, less than four percent of surgeries each year are performed on the poorest one-third of the world. Thus, there is an overwhelming global need for doctors and other medical professionals to serve the billions that have no choice but to go completely untreated. Click here for the complete article
