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Doe Run Peru Rotaplast International Provide Free Surgery to Peruvian...

Doe Run Peru (http://www.rotaplast.org/) to provide cleft lip and palate surgery to a record number of children from towns near La Oroya and other parts of the central Andes.

A Rotaplast International "Smile in the Andes" delegation of 38 surgeons, nurses and other medical professionals and volunteers specially trained in reconstructive surgery is working at the hospital in the town of Chulec near La Oroya to operate on this year's group of children and do follow-up examinations on dozens of other children the program helped on previous trips.

Doe Run Peru pays all expenses for the surgeries so that the surgeries are completely free of charge to the children and their families.

Rotaplast officials estimate as many as 120 cleft palate or cleft lip surgeries will be performed during this year's campaign, which is scheduled to conclude this week. Patients being treated in the program this year come from towns including Huancayo, Cerro de Pasco, Huancavelica and Ayacucho.

In addition to medical expenses, Doe Run Peru provides logistical support for the program. Rotaplast International is a community service organization established by participating Rotary Clubs (

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