The Restore Mission, a United States of America (USA) non-profit medical charity acting together with the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) in Kumasi, will provide free plastic and reconstructive surgeries to needy patients in its 2016 mission to the hospital.

It is expected that scores of patients with burns, among other congenital body surface abnormalities would undergo free corrective surgeries during this humanitarian surgical mission which has been thrown open to the general public.

Dr Oheneba Owusu-Danso, Consultant and Head of the Plastic, Burns and Reconstructive Surgery Unit of the Surgery Directorate, KATH disclosed these to the media.

He noted that the selection of patients would be done between September 1 and 23, on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, at the specialist consulting room 9 “C” at the country’s second largest referral facility.

The Consultant emphasized that “this programme is targeted at clients and patients with body surface and other functional deformities, very bad scars and wounds”, but warned that anyone that does not attend the screening session would not be entertained when the time elapses.

Dr Owusu-Danso said it was refreshing that the correction of post-burn deformities and other abnormalities in areas such as the face, neck, chest, arms, legs, hands and feet, which is expensive, is now being provided free-of-charge and called on affected persons to take advantage.

The Consultant asked patients on the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) to go with their cards as well as their referral forms from the hospitals they had attended so as to reduce the local component of the cost.