Cases and Conditions / Noma & Facial Deformities

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John Botrey lived for 15 years with devastating deformity and disability resulting from the tropical gangrene-like disease, Noma, known as “the face of poverty”

Over a 2-year period a RPS team performed highly complex cranio-facial operations for the first time in West Africa to immeasurably improve John's quality of life.

His lower jaw has been returned to its original position; part of his hipbone has been used to rebuild his missing upper jaw.

He can now eat and speak normally, his appearance has been vastly improved and a final operation will improve appearance and function further .

Without surgery, this Ghanaian girl to the left would have lost the sight in her right eye.

Godfrey Amos, below, from Tanzania is seeking surgical help for his grotesque tumour known as neurofibromatosis.

The hole caused by removal of a cancerous growth has since been repaired using skin and tissue from this man's forehead.