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The medical staff of Shriners Hospital for Children in Los Angeles, United States, which has provided free treatments to Chungnam's children with disabilities based on its agreement with Chungnam, visited Korea and practiced medicine of love.

Dr. John Lorants, who has treated Korean children with disabilities at Shriners Hospital, visited Korea on April 24, 2011 along with Nurse Heidi Park. They checked the conditions of the children that received an operation in the U.S. and decided whether they needed additional procedures, staying in Korea until May 3, 2011. They also conducted a preliminary examination of children who would need a procedure.

▲ Los Angeles Shriners Hospitals for ChildrenShriners Hospital is a unique health care system that provides free pediatric specialty care for children in need. Since its inception in 1922 Shriners has been dedicated to treatment and rehabilitation of kids with specialized medical needs. These include orthopedics, burns, spinal cord injury, cleft lip and palate.

They conducted a preliminary examination of 15 children including 11 children with disabilities at Chungnam National University Hospital on April 25 the following day after their arrival in Korea, examined 22 Chungnam children at Dankook University Hospital on April 26, and 18 children from Daejeon and Chungnam on April 27. They also determined whether five children with scoliosis would need an operation through Telemedicine with Shriners Hospital in L.A., following the agreement between Mr. An Heejung, Provincial Governor of Chungnam, and Shriners Hospital during his visit to the hospital last March.

 

Shriners Hospital for Children is widely known for its rehabilitation treatments for children suffering incurable diseases worldwide and specializes in burn and spine fracture treatments. It has provided children with burns or orthopedic disorders aged 18 or younger from low-income families in Daejeon and Chungnam with the entire travel, accommodation, and treatment expenses at Shriners Hospital since 1997 when it made an agreement on free treatments for children with disabilities with Chungnam. A total of 101 children in Chungnam received their free treatments by 2010, and 15 will join them this year.