Mission Summary

India

Jamshedpur, India: February 19- 27, 2009

An Operation Smile team of more than 45 medical and non-medical volunteers worked in Jamshedpur, India, to provide free medical evaluations and surgery to children born with facial deformities. The Operation Smile team of plastic surgeons, anesthesiologists, nurses, dentists, a speech therapist, and others worked at Tata Main Hospital. The team consisted of medical professionals from Australia and the United States, who worked with their in-country Indian counterparts to provide 181 patients with free life-changing surgeries.

This will be Operation Smile’s first international medical mission to Jamshedpur. Since Operation Smile's first mission to India in 2002, volunteers have provided free physical examinations to more than 4,880 patients and life-changing surgery to more than 2,080 children and young adults during international medical missions in India.

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