Date: Thursday, February 10, 2011
Time: 5 pm
Location: Chan Centre for Family Health Education at the CFRI, BC Children’s Hospital (950 West 28th Avenue, Vancouver)
Following the film, there will be a discussion on International Surgery led by Dr. Cindy Verchere and a dinner, available by donation. Everyone is welcome.
Please RSVP to Nathan O’Hara at nohara@cw.bc.ca
OPSEI presents a Global Health Movie Night featuring the film “Smile Pinki”
Pinki is a five-year-old girl from a village in the Mirzapur District, India, born into a desperately poor family, and with a cleft lip. Pinki never realized that this condition required just one simple operation until she met Pankaj, a social worker traveling from village to village gathering patients to go to hospital in Varanasi that provides free surgery to thousands each year. This real-world fairy tale follows its protagonist journey to a dream smile from isolation and shame. Written by TriVin Dreamer (from IMDb)
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CamEXQ8x72c[/youtube]
Damian J. Duffy, Executive Director
Office of Pediatric Surgical Evaluation and Innovation
BC Children’s Hospital
University of British Columbia