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Further consultation with US doctors capable of performing this intricate surgery have led us to conclude the the surgery would likely have to be done in the US, where more extensive post-op care between multiple surgeries is available. We’d still like to help these children, but the meager amounts identified in the original story won’t cover it. If you’re still interested in helping, please contact us for further information.

What follows is the original story:

We have identified two candidates for surgical restoration of hearing. Both are Honduran children who suffer from birth defects that seriously impair their hearing, and both have conditions that appear to be correctable by advanced surgery performed by U.S. surgical teams from major U.S. universities that periodically visit Honduras. For the  $500 cost of a local MRI, these candidates can participate in this program. The required surgical skills are well beyond those available in local Honduran hospitals and would cost tens of thousands of dollars in U.S. hospitals. Our presence in Honduras makes it possible to it do here (for no cost) by doing the necessary pre-op work for diagnosis, evaluation, and planning and then providing post-op care that is critical, but outside the mission of U.S. surgical teams. In conjunction with Honduran Hope Network, we’ve put together a neat video slide presentation that we hope you’ll enjoy and that you can pass along, by using the URL, to any friends who may be interested.

Please contact us using the contact form if you can help us with this.

And we wish all those who visit here a wonderful and prosperous new year.

The HondurasMD team.

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