# Operation Smile, in partnership with Nelson Mandela Children’s Hospital and supported by Life Healthcare, is conducting a weekend surgical programme to perform cleft lip and palate surgeries on 40 children. Healthcare CEO Peter Wharton-Hood told Newzroom Afrika that the programme is an example of public-private partnership. He says that the initiative, part of National Smile Month, trains surgical trainees to reduce the surgery backlog:
Operation Smile brings life-changing surgeries to children in Gauteng [SOUND]
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