PLASTIC SURGERY TEAM VISITS MT HAGEN PROVINCIAL SPECIALIST HOSPITAL
CAPTION: Surgery team at work at the operation theatre today in Mt Hagen Provincial Specialist Hospital.
Pictures supplied by WHPHA PR.
BY SAMUEL RAITANO, in Mt Hagen
A team of plastic surgeons from Port Moresby General Hospital is in Western Highlands Province doing operations at Mt Hagen Provincial Specialist Hospital this week.
This is the second visit by the team led by Dr Jackson Nuli, Head Surgeon, Plastics and Reconstruction Surgery Unit at POMGH who is the PNG counterpart for Interplast visits, following last years visit.
Dr Nuli’s specialist team include Dr Mitchell Masin a surgeon and Dr Hilbert Tovirika, anaesthetist helped by support staff on ground.
They have been doing six to seven surgeries a day this week after seeing 30 patients at Cons Clinic on Monday, and will conclude operations by Friday but will extend their services to Saturday if there is need to do so.
Surgeries are mainly on lip clefts or babies born with split lips, those with severe burns, those born with deformed limbs, those with severe wounds and so forth. Not cosmetics beauty surgery like face or nose jobs.
Interplast Australia and New Zealand is a medical charity that has been sending volunteer plastic and reconstructive surgeons, anaesthetists to seventeen countries in Asia Pacific while training doctors as well.
