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Plastic Surgery Trainees Provide Aid in Cambodia with BFIRST

1^st December 2024

During October, plastic surgery trainees Ailbhe Kiely, Parv Varma and Lucy Lester joined a 12-person strong team of consultant and trainee surgeons and an expert hand therapist from across the UK and Singapore to visit the Children's Surgical Centre in Phnom Penh in Cambodia.

 

Mr Wee Lam and Miss Sara Dorman in association with BFIRST, BSSH global partnerships and hand surgeons from Singapore have visited almost twice annually since 2013 to build the Brachial Plexus and Congenital Hand service. 

 

During this trip the first free functional muscle transfer for a Plexus injury, Khmer surgeon Dr Bonvath raised an ALT flap for a neglected snake bite trauma to a foot.