Mr Nick Percival FRCS who recently featured on the 2 part series on Channel 5, ‘Botched Up Bodies’, is off to India to perform vital surgery from the goodness of his heart. The cosmetic surgeon has an extremely high level of expertise and will be using it to carry out life changing surgery for patients in need.
The voluntary trip to the Walawalkar Hospital has been organised by fellow consulting cosmetic surgeon, Shailesh Vadodaria who has been visiting India for a number of years. Shailesh has set up a cleft lip and palate surgery service in Mount Abu, North West India with some colleagues from Norway some 8 years ago and has now trained local surgeons to do the work. The unit has a reputation within India and patients even travel from the big cities to this small town for treatment.
This trip, however, to a different area, is to join a group of doctors and other health professionals who travel every year from the UK and Europe to the hospital in Dervan, a small town about 200 miles south east of Mumbai. All types of reconstructive plastic surgery will be done including hand surgery, secondary burns surgery and reconstruction following birth defects and trauma.
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- · Mr Nick Percival is not only one of the country’s most renowned Plastic Surgeons, but he also trains selected cosmetic surgeons on his specialties. Nick is well known for his long experience in the use of lasers in both facial disfigurement and cosmetic surgery and has lectured widely both in the United Kingdom and abroad. Mr Percival has extensive experience in facial surgery and cosmetic surgery including the MACS lift, breast augmentation/reduction as well as abdominal reduction and liposuction. Since 1992 he has developed a cosmetic surgery practice in Harley Street and in 1998 joined with his colleague, Dai Davies, to form a partnership dedicated to achieve the highest standards of care in Cosmetic Surgery in the UK. Through its teaching and training arm the partners train NHS Plastic surgery trainees in all aspects of Cosmetic Surgery.
- · The BKL Walawalkar Hospital has itsAnnual Surgery camp from 26th January till 2nd February 2013. Surgeries performed by a team led by Dr. Sanjay Deshpande include: eye, spine, thyroid and total hip replacements.