The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) says that a team of doctors from the Health Education and Relief Organization (HERO) recently visited Guyana to perform corrective surgeries on a number of children with lower limb deformities at the hospital.
The organization began visiting Guyana twice a year since 2006 to do outreaches and perform such surgeries on children with “club foot” and other lower extremity problems; however, there was a hiatus from 2011 to now, the GPHC said in a press release.
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 previous four days, the team from HERO performed at least 20 procedures on about 12 persons since some patients required two operations. Surgeries were performed on patients as young as below one-year old to adults who were born with chronic deformities that were never treated, the release said. The surgeries were performed with assistance from doctors at the hospital.
Paediatric 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.”
