successful operation Dec. 1992

 

 

Surgery for a Guatemalan boy by way of the Rotary

 

An operation to remove a benign tumor from an 11-year old Guatemalan boy was conducted Friday, Nov. 27, at the Meadowlands Hospital and Medical Center as part of an on-going international program to provide advanced surgery to the disadvantaged.

 Eric Bonilla, hosted by a family from New Jersey, was brought to the United States from an isolated region of Guatemala which had no facilities to conduct the complicated operation, said surgeon Dr.Pierre Guibor.

"He has an orbital tumor of the right eye," Guibor said earlier in the week. "It's invasive and goes into the nose, sinuses and brain."  The tumor causes perpetual double vision and decreased eye sight.

Bonilla's surgery and trip to the U.S. is part of the Rotary Gift of Sight program in which the Meadowlands hospital is involved. Dr. Guibor, president of the Tenafly Rotary Club, said this is part of a larger Heal the Children Program that has been going on for many years.

"This is basically a combination of organizations and personnel doing outreach on an international scope," Guibor said. Doctors treat children and adults from around the world for specialized surgery, though he noted this phase of bringing people to the U.S. is new.

"Previously, we went there to treat the poorest of the poor," Guibor said, who has been to Thailand, India, Mexico, Indonesia, and countries of South America over the last twenty years. "Now we're turning things around and bringing the more advanced cases here when they can't get surgery in their own countries."

The surgery conducted Friday is a highly advanced form called Oculo-plastic surgery and combines the fields of plastic and eye surgery.

Guibor said his specialty involve vision, but noted the Rotary enlisted volunteers from the medical, business and other professions to do various services world-wide. Guibor is also involved with celebrated medical organization called Physicians Without Borders



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