Date: 6/25/2011
TUMSPR News: Dr. Bernard Pavy, the French plastic surgeon who is famous for cleft lip, cleft palate and burn scar surgeries operated on some disadvantaged children during his week-long stay at TUMS Vali-e-Asr Hospital from June 9, 2011.
Dr. Bernard Pavy, the French plastic surgeon, who is famous for doing 300,000 cleft lip, cleft palate, maxillofacial anomalies and burn scar surgeries free of charge around the world and has given those children hope to compete with normal peers spent a week, starting from June 9, 2011, at Vali-e-Asr Hospital affiliated to Tehran University of Medical Sciences (TUMS) to operate on some disadvantaged children.
This philanthropic surgeon of French nationality believes these children are of equal intelligence to their normal peers and have the right to live equally and not to be segregated for their disfigured body.
During an interview with TUMS PR representative at the Hospital, Professor Pavy pledges to help humans as much as he can and share his expertise.
Dr. Pavi is the 15th physician who has visited the country in coordination with Iran’s branch of the International “La Chaine de l’Espoir” (the Chain of Hope) charity organization. In the past two years, as many as 1240 surgeries in below 18 children have been done by the cooperation of Iranian and French surgeons. Most of the children have had spinal column deformities or congenital heart problems.
Iran’s Chain of Hope branch has helped Iranian surgeons by coordinating for their education in France in fields needed most by the country.
The expenses of some of the surgeries routinely about $20-40 thousand in Iran have been reduced to something below $5000 by the help of Iranian surgeons and volunteer hospitals while most of the expenses are also undertaken by good-doers.
Iran’s Welfare Organization is one of the allies of the Organization in identifying the children in need of the help.
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