Mission Summary

India

Guwahati, India: January 29- February 6, 2009

An Operation Smile team of more than 45 medical and non-medical volunteers volunteered their time in Guwahati, India, to provide free medical evaluations and surgery to children born with facial deformities. The Operation Smile team of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, a dentist, pediatricians, a child life specialist and others worked at MMC Hospital. The team consisted of medical professionals from the United States, who worked with their in-country Indian counterparts to provide 158 patients with free life-changing surgeries.

This was Operation Smile’s first international medical mission to Guwahati. Since Operation Smile's first mission to India in 2002, volunteers have provided free physical examinations to more than 4,350 patients and life-changing surgery to more than 1,850 children and young adults during international medical missions throughout the country.

First international mission: 2002
International mission sites: Bolpur, Deesa, Dharamsala, Guwahati, Himachal Pradesh, Jamshedpur,  Kolkata, Manipal, Rajkot, Vijayawada
Local mission sites: Kolkata, Deesa