ISMS Operation Kids is a not-for-profit group of dedicated individuals with one goal: To provide free, state of the art medical care and surgical interventions to children in underdeveloped countries.
The crowded hallway of the triage area can be chaotic and emotional for those waiting to be evaluated.
Mothers carry their children despite the heat.
The sweet face of Fadwa and her mother. Fadwa has a small tumor in her left eye. She was left in my care for four hours while her mother went to nurse her other small child.
A mother and daughter wait to go into surgery.
Lisa Tucci, RN, and her favorite patient.
Cindy Steel Felici, MD, babysitting a patient left in the center's care for the day.
Our unique team is multispecialized in plastic, pediatric, and orthopedic surgery, as well as pediatric hematology oncology. This is Karima Belhaj with Joan Blanco, the program director.
Dr. James Tucci inspects supplies.
Mother, family, and friends crying over the work of Dr. Stephanie Cohen, who repaired the cleft lip of a little boy who was unable to eat and would have died without the surgery. That night he nursed his first bottle.
My favorite patient, Fadwa.
A fun rascal of a boy! Regardless of the fact that we couldn't understand one another, we played lots of games together during the long hours.
Hospital Ibn Zohr in Marrakech, where we spent 17 hours per day.
A lovely family with Colleen Hekemian, RN, and Lisa Tucci, RN.
A henna tattoo as beautiful as a work of art.
Program team members Cindy Steele Felici, MD, Pam Pope, RN, and Lisa Tucci, RN.
Dr. Victor Valda works with his nurse Maryann Kourgialis and teaches Moroccan doctors at the same time.
The ISMS team with Moroccan doctors, nurses, and hospital guards.
Dr. James Tucci and Dr. Jeff Rost examine a young boy.
Ready for surgery and still smiling.
Dr. Stephanie Cohen with anesthesiologist Bob Shearer.
A team of Moroccan nurses.
A busy operating room—without air-conditioning—where plastic surgeon Stephanie Cohen, MD, and pediatric surgeon Victor Valda, MD, are working on two different patients.
A little girl waits to go home.
Meg Gage, RN, with a patient.
A couple waits for their child to come out of surgery.
A self-portrait with Nora, a patient.
As citizens of the world, we are committed morally, spiritually, and intellectually to create a mutual understanding and realize the value of diversity through medical assistance. To order the ISMS Morocco book, go to: http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/560199
