Operation Smile
Bill and Melinda Gates once made a million dollar donation to Operation Smile, an American-based charity that performs plastic surgeries on children from poor and developing nations suffering from cleft palates, hare lips, burn scars and the like.
But the charity has had a checkered career. Medical critics from some of these nations charge that Operation Smile cares more about racking up numbers than performing surgically safe operations. Here’s more from Jamie Dlux.
