Dental Care Clinic Opens in Casablanca, Morocco
Since its launch in 1998, Operation Smile Morocco announces its latest accomplishment – the opening of the first Operation Smile dental care clinic in Casablanca.
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Inaugurated on June 15, 2008, the Angus Lawson Dental Care (ALDC) Department’s opening ceremony was attended by guests and donors from throughout Morocco and the United Kingdom. The clinic will provide year-round dental care to Moroccan children.
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The clinic was funded, in part, by the Angus Lawson Memorial Trust. The purpose of the trust is to make funds available to directly support children from underprivileged or disadvantaged backgrounds, and to meet healthcare or educational needs. Angus Lawson was almost two years old when he passed away after an accident in 2006.
On the day of the opening of the new clinic, 57 Moroccan orphans were treated, many of them seeing a dentist for the first time. The goal of the clinic is to treat 5,000 children in the first year.
Operation Smile Comprehensive Care Centers have already been opened in Colombia, Honduras, China, India, and Vietnam to provide surgical treatment and pre- and post-operative follow-up for thousands of additional patients, especially those in remote areas. Another Comprehensive Care Center is also slated to open in the Philippines. The Centers will also help train medical volunteers, strengthen local development and fundraising activities and provide on-going administrative support for in-country activities.
Since Operation Smile's first mission to Morocco in 1998, volunteers have provided free physical examinations to more than 7,800 patients and life-changing surgery to more than 3,000 children and young adults during international medical missions.
