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SURGICAL OUTREACH
International Relief Teams (IRT) brings hope and healing to rural areas of the world by providing surgical and clinical services for the forgotten poor.
Alleviating suffering from burns, blindness, and birth defects
Because of severe poverty and the absence of qualified specialists, the hope of corrective surgery remains an impossible dream for many families who inhabit the rural areas of the world. Thousands have put up with a lifetime of hardship and discrimination because of deformities.
- IRT plastic and re-constructive surgical teams, utilizing their specialized
skills, assist many men, women, and children worldwide who have endured
severe burns caused by preparing food on primitive stoves, or have suffered
disfigurement from cleft lips and palates, and other birth defects.
- IRT ophthalmology teams restore the gift of sight to numerous people
in developing countries suffering from blindness due to cataracts.
- IRT general surgery teams assist those living with painful conditions such as hernias, gall stones, tumors and other correctable maladies.
Alleviating suffering from illness and chronic disease
For those who do not have access to even the most basic healthcare, IRT clinical volunteers treat illness and chronic disease, and educate families about preventative care.
Since 1988, 131 International Relief Teams' surgical and clinical teams, involving 552 volunteers, have brought the "miracle of a new beginning" to those who have little or no access to qualified surgical and clinical specialists.
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