Mission to the Top of the World

Thursday, October 14, 2010

The first Aloha Medical Mission surgical mission "Reaching the Unreached" to Dhankuta, Nepal, leaves Wednesday, October 20, led by board president Dr. Brad Wong.

Three general surgeons, a plastic surgeon, two gynecologists, three anesthesiologists, two dentists, three OR nurses, and the balance of clinical nurses and lay members will operate for nine days. They will perform cleft lip and burn contracture repairs, cholecystectomies, herniorrhaphies, hysterectomies, tooth extractions and restorations, and minor outpatient procedures. Five of the 13 surgical team members are new volunteers.

This mission was conceived more than a year ago when Dr. Bikash Gupta, a Nepalese family-practice resident at the University of Hawai‘i John A. Burns School of Medicine, approached AMM to organize a mission to his wife's hometown. Dr. Gupta's high school friends Binod Jha, a dentist in Kathmandu, and Hitesh Karki, a software engineer also in Kathmandu, have spent many days and months organizing the infrastructure on the Nepal side. 

For more details of the mission go to: dhankuta2010.webs.com.