Some 500 children under 16 years old will receive free heart surgery and a contribution towards travel and food expenses during treatment under a program to be carried out at Cho Ray Hospital in Ho Chi Minh City from now until the end of 2016.

The hospital of the Central Highlands University, the Dak Lak provincial Fund for Children has recently worked with Operation Smile Vietnam, Amway Company and Vietnam – Cuba Friendship Hospital Hanoi to give free surgery to 80 children who suffer from cleft lip and cleft palate.

Nearly 200 Vietnamese children who suffer from cleft lip and cleft palate are being provided free surgery in a program worth USD50,000 sponsored by the ExxonMobil Corporation in Vietnam.

Over 150 children coming from Ho Chi Minh city and southern provinces who suffer from having a cleft lip and cleft palate were provided free surgery in a program held by Operation Smile and the Ho Chi Minh city Medicine and Pharmacy University Hospital on July 11th – 17th.