F.A.C.E. Health Network was designed to help Doctors, Nurses, Social Workers and anyone interested in improving healthcare for children. It is our intent to provide useful educational materials that can be used by all levels of medical personnel and the general public.
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children returning from school.
The FACE Foundation is proud to announce its latest
mission to Central America.
On June 25, 2009, physicians, social workers and nurses
from FACE El Salvador as well as Jacksonville Facial Plastic Surgeon,
Roberto E. Garcia, M.D. will spend two days aboard the U.S.S. Comfort
providing medical and surgical care to children with facial defects.
The Comfort is a United States navy hospital ship that
has all of the capabilities of a tertiary care hospital. It is
designed to take care of all sorts of medical, dental and surgical problems
in a compact and efficient platform. Of course it has the added
benefit of being able to sail to any part of the world and provide its
services to any country. The ship is currently on tour throughout the
Caribbean and Central and South America and will anchor outside of El
Salvador near the end of June.
FACE intends to provide services to approximately 30
children with disfiguring deformities such as cleft lip, cleft palate,
traumatic facial deformities and burn injuries. The team will comprise
of Salvadorian plastic surgeons as well as American surgeons working hand in
hand in an internationally sensitive, cooperative and nurturing environment
that will foster excellent relations between the two countries.
This is one of the first time that U.S. physicians have
worked in conjunction with international physicians aboard a U.S. Navy
hospital ship.
FACE looks forward to continuing to provide services to
impoverished and underprivileged communities throughout the world.
Dengue Fever is on the increase in some parts of Central America and the Caribbean. F.A.C.E. is providing mosquito nets in countries where we have Medical Social Workers. It is important that you understand how to prevent this disease. This is also malaria. Watch the video in our medical library.
