How Cork doctors help sick Ethiopians to face the future

Twice a year, an international team goes to the impoverished African nation to perform transformative facial surgery on social outcasts, says Tony McNamara

How Cork doctors help sick Ethiopians to face the future

Twice a year, an international team goes to the impoverished African nation to perform transformative facial surgery on social outcasts, says Tony McNamara

TOMBUKI is a 35-year-old Ethiopia man who suffers from a devastating condition called noma — it results from an untreated oral infection and causes horrific facial deformity.

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