OPSA surgery team will be travelling to Gujrat, Pakistan for 10 days to operate on children with cleft lip and palate in Cleft Hospital Gujrat and also help with teaching and training in the local community.
OPSA would like to thank Ariel Bruce for her contribution to Spring Surgical Camp.
Ariel has sourced a film crew from Goldsmiths, University of London (internationally known for creativity and innovation) to visit Pakistan and record the work of OPSA and PCLAPA (Pakistan Cleft Lip & Palate Association) in a television documentary, which we are very excited about.
The two film-makers have offered to do this for OPSA in their own time, and on a voluntary basis, for which we are extremely grateful.
OPSA is offering a scholarship for a senior trainee. The scholarship will be awarded through the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland and BAPRAS
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