Mozambique

In Mozambique, it is estimated that nearly 14,000 children 14 and younger live with untreated cleft conditions, but the country has just one specialist surgical worker per 100,000 people.

Operation Smile Mozambique: By the Numbers

In Mozambique, children affected by cleft conditions receive access to safe surgery and multidisciplinary support.

2014

Year Services Began in Mozambique

225+

Cleft Surgeries Provided

2

Clinics Providing Year-Round Care

Expanding Access to Care

To ensure that every child has access to care close to home, we equip the providers within our patients’ communities with skills and resources to deliver high quality care. We build the needed capacity by harnessing the talent and resources that exist within the country, usually in the bigger cities, the hubs, to train providers in under-resourced areas, the spokes, where most patients lack access to care.

In Mozambique, our hubs based at the Nampula Central Hospital in Nampula and at the Maputo Central Hospital in Maputo provide year-round care for our patients.

Three-Year Vision

Working alongside Mozambican medical professionals, Operation Smile projects to deliver surgical care to 870 patients in the next three years. Additionally, we will provide over 1,100 patients with comprehensive care.

Operation Smile will increase access to health care by providing high-quality education and training for approximately 260 health workers in Mozambique. Training providers will allow us to launch hospital-based partnership programs across the country and expand the reach of our programs.

Our Partners

Operation Smile’s close collaboration with the Ministry of Health and Provincial Directorate allows us to effectively coordinate and expand cleft care programs in Mozambique.