It will be too much to ask for more. February 2020, celebrating the 30th year of continuous extending my hands and arms to the needy deserving underprivileged patients with facial birth defects such as cleft lip and palate and mostly children, I was blessed to be with the PAGES family and at the same time being with friends and relatives right after the volunteer mission time. Meeting with friends, relatives,…
Read More30 days from today
The days are coming. 30 days from today, the Philippine American Group of Educators and Surgeons, also known as PAGES MISSION GROUP composed of 50 medical and non medical volunteers from different countries from as far as U.S.A. , U.K, Australia, Hong Kong and being join by the Philippine volunteer team will be at Ospital Ng Imus, located in Imus City, Province of Cavite from Jan 31 to Feb 7,…
Read MoreLibreng Operasyon 2020
Free operation for cleft lip and cleft palate When: February 1-7, 2020 Registration Date: November 5, 2019 – January 5, 2020 Where: Imus Hospital Pedro Reyes St. Malagasang 1-G Imus Cavite. Please contact Mr. Larry Figuerras 09561480812
Read MoreIncoming event 2019
Free operation for cleft lip and cleft palate When: February 2-9, 2019 Registration Date: November 5, 2018 – February 2, 2018 Where: Imus Hospital Pedro Reyes St. Malagasang 1-G Imus Cavite In cooperation with Mayor Manny Maliksi Please contact Mr. Larry Figuerras 09561480812
Read More29th Years of Giving Hope
The Philippine American Group of Educators and Surgeons, U.S.A., also known as PAGES was established and founded in 1990 and was registered as a non profit corporation under U.S. Internal Revenue Services tax exempt 501c3 status in 1992 with tax I.D. # 22-3064510 with official address in Livingston New Jersey. On the other side, the PAGES Philippine Foundation with an office in Quezon City, Philippines is registered and approved as…
Read MoreMessage from Founders
It’s another new year. Another year to think about the best things to do and the good to add to our lives for the new year. Another year to think about what we’ve done in the past and what we can do better this year and for years to come. Time goes fast. The year 1984 was when I initially became part of Operation Smile and joined their medical mission…
Read MoreNew Home For 2017
The Philippine American Group of Educators and Surgeons (PAGES) – Operation H.O.P.E (Help Other People Excel) has a new home for its surgical mission for the year 2017. The Rafael Lazatin Memo-rial Medical Center (RLMMC) in Angeles City Pampanga, also known as the Ospital Ning Angeles (ONA) is located at Visitacion St. Barangay Pampang, Angeles City Pampanga. Built initially in 1965 as hospital for the poor community, it suffered degradation…
Read MorePAGES Medical Screening
Before patients are scheduled for surgery, they undergo a standardized process of screening where a brief medical, surgical, and family history is obtained and a focused physical examination is per-formed. A staff of Pediatricians initiates the encounter, pass the patient to the Surgeons who will map out the surgical plan, then a patient list is generated. On the day of the surgery, the Anesthesiologists perform a quick pre-anesthesia check or…
Read MorePAGES that bring smiles to young faces
Acts of charity and the most compassionate deeds bloom from the innermost chambers of the heart. It is also from the same heart’s spring that the core of PAGES was formed The Philippine American Group of Educators and Surgeons, Inc., or PAGES, as initially registered in the State of Delaware and New Jersey as a group of medical professionals and volunteers that aims to help Filipino abecedarians with cleft lip…
Read MoreFacts And Myths About Cleft Palate
Cleft Palate is a congenital fissure in the roof of the mouth forming a communicating passageway between mouth and nasal cavities. It may be unilateral or bilateral and complete and incomplete. When it is incomplete, it involves only a part of the hard of soft palate. Some call Cleft lip a harelip…it consists of a vertical cleft or clefts in the upper lip. This congenital condition results from the faulty…
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