Australian plastic surgeons to perform 60 free operations
Staff Correspondent
A team of 11 Australian plastic surgeons, anaesthetists and nurses are visiting Bangladesh on a two-week tour to perform 60 operations for free and work with doctors at the Dhaka Medical College Hospital.The team from Interplast Australia and New Zealand arrived in the city on May 5 and conducted 200 consultations in one day, from which they picked 60 patients as priority cases who require operations. The team will also train local medical personnel with planned instruction in the operation theatre and a series of lectures designed to impart the knowledge of Australia's surgical, anaesthesia and nursing expertise to increase the capacity of health services offered in Bangladesh.
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