Clubbed Feet

I just wrote about burn contractures, and here I want to highlight another great procedure done here at Karanda. This young girl was born with "clubbed feet," as you can see from the pictures below.











By means of a fairly simple 45-minute surgery, her feet can be restored to their proper position. She may never play soccer, but she will certainly walk normally, and grow up without the obvious deformity in the pictures above. Surgeries like this in the U.S. are done only by specialists, but this surgery, just like the burn contractures I mentioned in another post, is not that technically difficult once someone has done a few. I count it a privilege to learn skills such as these, such that God may choose to use me as a simple family physician to be a blessing to children like this one in the future, who would otherwise have no chance at a cure.