Free clinic Australian plastic surgery team [1]
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 - 19:10. Updated on Monday, September 9, 2013 - 18:40.
INTERPLAST Australia and New Zealand team will visit Tonga from 28 October 3 November 2011 to assist Tongan National Health Services to conduct specialist consultation clinics and perform plastic and reconstructive surgery services.
The team consists of:
Mr James Leong Surgeon
Mr William Blake Surgeon
Dr Andu Borsaru Anaesthetist
Ms Anne Sutherland Nurse
Ms Lynette Maclean Nurse
The AusAID funded Interplast team will conduct the consultation clinic on Friday 28 October at 9:00am at the Special Outpatients Clinic, Vaiola Central Hospital, Nukualofa.
Plastic and reconstructive surgery consultation and operating will take place at the hospital 28 October 3 November 2010.
The Australian Government funds approximately fifty surgical teams every year in the Pacific, with 4 being held in Tonga in 2011. The assistance, under AusAID's Pacific Islands Program, fills specific gaps in local medical services and provides on-the-job training to local medical staff.
This will be the 32nd Interplast plastic and reconstructive surgery visit to Tonga since 1983.
Patients with conditions including; scarring from burns, hand surgery and tumours as well as other conditions that would benefit from treatment by the Interplast team, are urged to contact Dr. Saia Piukala (Surgical Unit) at the Vaiola Central Hospital. The clinic is by appointment only and must be screened by the surgical team or private general practitioners. PLEASE be advised that Patients with common skin diseases or cosmetic conditions will be excluded from consultation.
For more information please contact the Vaiola Central Hospital;
Dr Saia Piukala ph: 23200.
Alternatively please contact Kirsty Robertson at Interplast in Australia;
Kirsty Robertson email: krobertson [dot] interplast [at] surgeons [dot] org +61 2 9437 0474. Australian Plastic Surery Team, 17/10/11.