Peru

Operation Smile has been working in Peru since 1999, providing high-quality care for children born with cleft conditions.

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By the Numbers

In Peru, children affected by cleft conditions receive access to safe surgery and multidisciplinary support.

1999

Year Services Began in Peru

7,400+

Patients Treated

130+

Surgical Programs

Increasing Access to Care

To ensure that every child has access to care close to home, we equip the providers within our patients’ communities with skills and resources to deliver high-quality care. We build the needed capacity by harnessing the talent and resources that exist within the country, usually in the bigger cities, the hubs, to train providers in under-resourced areas, the spokes, where most patients lack access to care.

In Peru, Operation Smile provides surgical and comprehensive cleft care at our hub in Lia.

Our spokes are Hospital Nacional Daniel Alcides Carrión in Callao, Hospital Emergencias Pediátricas in Lima, Hospital Regional Honorio Delgado in Arequipa and Hospital Nacional Dos de Mayo in Lima.

Five-Year Vision

Over the next five years, Operation Smile will build a coordinated cleft care network in Peru, decentralizing the surgical system to provide accessible, sustainable and multidisciplinary treatment.

This initiative aims to train five cleft surgical teams and invest in operating rooms in five hospitals. By the end of the five years, Operation Smile will perform surgeries for around 4,171 patients with cleft conditions and for approximately 23,000 other patients.