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Operation Smile launches second mission in Marrakesh
Morocco, Health, 3/7/2003
The second mission of the NGO, Operation Smile, providing reconstructive surgery and related healthcare to indigent children kicked off in Marrakesh Thursday.
The mission is conducted by a 60-person staff, made of surgeons, anaesthetists, paediatricians, speech therapists and nurses.
Head of Operation Smile-Morocco, Abdu Jbara, told MAP the mission, to continue until March 16, will benefit some 700 persons nationwide, including 200 who will undergo surgeries.
A total of 40 to 50 persons will undergo surgeries daily, and their follow up will be ensured by Moroccan doctors, Jbara said.
A similar operation will be organized March 27-April 04 in the southern city of Laayoune, he announced.
"These two missions will cost some 4.5 million dirhams (nearly US$ 450,000)." Some 2,051 Moroccan patients have undergone Operation Smile surgeries since it was launched in the kingdom in 1998.
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