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 Vinh, Vietnam – A first team of volunteer surgeons arrived at the Vinh Orthopedic Rehabilitation Center on Sunday. The surgeons, Prosthetics Outreach Foundation Board Vice President Robert Veith, M.D., and Thomas Lee, M.D., will provide life-changing orthopedic surgery for 15 Vietnamese patients with debilitating limb deformities, most of them children.
After a week of surgeries in Vinh, the team will travel to the Ba Vi Orthopedic Technology and Rehabilitation Center, just an hour's drive from Vietnam’s capital, Hanoi. Working side by side with their Vietnamese counterparts, the surgeons will restore mobility to another 15 Vietnamese disabled men, women and children.
Two members of the second surgical team, Nimrod Ron, M.D., and Ruth Thomas, M.D., will join Drs. Veith and Lee, as well as Project Leader Naomi Shields, M.D., for the Fourth Annual Orthopedic Surgical Seminar for the Lower Extremities in Hanoi on May 27, 2006. The seminar draws orthopedic surgeons from throughout Vietnam. "It’s a wonderful opportunity to share learning and exchange best practices in our field," says Dr. Veith.
After the seminar, Drs. Veith and Lee will return home to the United States. Drs. Ron and Thomas will spend a week at Vinh Center, where another 15 patients, most of them children, will benefit from the doctors' volunteer services. Dr. Ron will then be joined by Loretta Chou, M.D., for a week at Thai Nguyen Center, north of Hanoi, correcting limb deformities for 15 more disabled children and adults.
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