About Us / Plastic Surgery

Plastic Surgery has a vital healthcare role to play in all societies.

Derived from the ancient Greek word "plastiko" - meaning to mould, reconstructive plastic surgery restores and rebuilds function after accidents and disease and helps minimise congenital and acquired deformities.

Untreated disfigurement causes great distress and unhappiness and can lead to children and adults being rejected by their society.

Tendons, veins, arteries, nerves, skin, bone and muscle are transferred and grafted to improve the quality of life of people suffering from many devastating conditions including:

• tissue-destroying diseases such as Noma and Buruli Ulcer
• burns & trauma
• ulcers
• skin cancer
• hand deformities
• skeletal deformities
• head and neck cancer
• congenital facial deformities - of the eyes, the nose, the ears, cleft lip and palate