Healing the Children and Rotaplast (Aired 12/31/10)




RadioRotary show

Summary: Dr. Manoj Abraham (plastic surgeon) with Dana Buffin (New Milford, CT Rotary), Executive Director of Healing the Children, and Kathy Kruger, RN, (Rotary District 7210’s Rotaplast Chair, Pleasant Valley Rotary tell the uplifting stories of how children and adults are helped by corrective surgery, performed by volunteers who donate their time, skills, and finances. These medical teams set up an operating room abroad or in the United States where they can correct cleft palates and other disfiguring conditions in children as young as 2 months old and people as old as 70+ who either don’t have access to or cannot afford treatment.