First WPP medical mission for 2016 to arrive this weekend

The first of nine medical missions to visit St Vincent and the Grenadines for 2016, compliments the World Pediatric Project (WPP), will be here next week, offering free medical services to local children and some from around the region.

The general surgery team, which consists of Dr Jeffery Lukish and Dr Tae Kim, as well as two nurses, Marybeth Pule and Sheree Dyer, arrive here on Saturday, January 9. They begin assessments the following day, with procedures taking place up until January 14, during which period they will be assisted by local medical practitioners.

Thirty-five children with issues relating to umbilical hernias, circumcisions, repairs to spleens and the pancreas, Hirschsprung disease, among other cases, will be treated by the specialists while here.

The WPP has been offering free medical services to critically ill children here for over a decade, with some cases being referred to the Virginia and Missouri in the United States, free of cost.

Eight more missions are scheduled to visit here over the course of the year, comprising specialists in cardiology, urology, orthopaedic scoliosis, neurosurgery, ophthalmology, general orthopaedics, physical therapy, and plastic surgery.