Eight-month-old baby Shameema will also be undergoing surgery. Her mother Tercial Soldaat says she is excited that her child will be operated on.
“It’s my first baby born like this and it made me very emotional. I’m excited that she’s being operated on because she’s been stared at and teased. And this is going to change everything and I’m very thankful.” The Foundation also does reconstructive surgery on other physical anomalies. The team of doctors, all of whom volunteer their time, are happy to be making a difference in these children’s lives.
UCT Head of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Professor Saleigh Adams advises parents to bring their children in so that the surgeries can be done while they’re still young. “The function has to come first, so in a child for instance with a cleft palate or lip and palate, if we don’t fix it early they’ll never speak normally. The lip is purely cosmetic, so if we don’t fix that then they get teased at school and ostracised in society and they’ll have a negative self-image. So it’s very important to sort out the form as well.”
Iam sure if it was done HealthLimpopo, our Mec of health would be hogging the headlines and twitter, hell she even moonlight as mec of housing etc(shame for whoever is mec of housing because she's now using a noble man collenmashawane) to push her need for constant highlights.
Every child has the right to healthcare . ..