Good morning!

Yesterday Team Nanchang greeted a crowd of about 100 patients and their families.  When the day was done, we had screening 86 children and scheduled 48 patients for surgery over the next 4 days.  During screening, each child starts with the medical records station where their chart is started and a picture is taken for identification.  The patient has their vital signs taken by our pre-op nurses, and then progresses through a series of stations including pediatrics, anesthesia, plastic surgery, and dental. At the end, they each meet with our speech therapist who helps the family learn to better support the child's speech development and nutritional & feeding needs.  I'll write more on each of these as the week unfolds.

Team meeting late last night to get ready for today, Friday, our first day of surgery.  We are ready for a great week!

Enjoy some pictures from screening below.:  Keep the comments coming!

Thanks again for being a friend of Operation Smile!

Jeff