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INTERNATIONAL PATIENTS

 

LEAP offers hope to those with no options for care in their home countries.

On occasion, LEAP encounters patients who have conditions that are too complicated to be treated in their own countries. Through collaboration with US hospitals and providers, we bring these patients to the US for highly specialized medical and surgical care. We take care of their travel and surgical costs, and we coordinate host families who will offer a loving and safe environment while they heal.

Thanks to the generosity of our donors, over 50 patients have received complex surgical care. 9 were children with such severe craniofacial conditions that they were abandoned as infants. We helped these children through an adoption process while they were in the U.S. In these cases, we feel that God brought us into their lives so that we could ultimately unite them with their forever families.

Li Ying

Li Ying originally came to Dallas from China in 2005 after six months of careful planning and prayerful consideration by Dr. Craig Hobar. She had the most severe craniofacial cleft that he had ever seen. Her condition was so rare that no research existed at the time for a recommended course of treatment.

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Nainsi

During our 2019 India mission, we met Nainsi and her family. She was born with a large encephalocele (brain cyst) protruding from her forehead. If left untreated, it would be fatal. After several months of planning, LEAP had initially scheduled Nainsi’s surgery in Dallas for September 2019. However, after overcoming U.S. immigration delays, Nainsi and her mother were finally granted travel visas and made the 2-day journey to America in early 2020. On January 14, Drs. Craig Hobar, Evan Beale, and David Sacco successfully removed the encephalocele. After one month of post-op care, love, and compassion from their host family, the Pintos, and the outstanding medical professionals at Medical City Children’s Hospital, Nainsi and her mother were escorted back to their home by our 2020 India mission team.

Peter

When Peter arrived from Beijing in February 2017, we only planned for him to be in Dallas for two weeks while he underwent a simple bilateral cleft lip revision. His condition was actually more severe, requiring four surgeries in four months.

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Thalia

We met Thalia on our 2001 Dominican Republic mission when she was only an infant. A few months later, she and her mother Margarita traveled to Dallas for her first of many surgeries. Since that time, Thalia has received surgical care when the mission team travels to the Dominican Republic and on multiple trips  to Dallas for more complex surgical care.

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Over 50 Patients from 19 Countries

Dominican Republic
Haiti
Bahamas
Egypt
Algeria
China
Ukraine
Cuba
Kenya
India
Honduras
Mexico
Jordan
Russia
Nicaragua
Belize
Lebanon
Moldova
Zimbabwe

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