This Campaign, dedicated to Adult Surgery, the Association had the generous collaboration of a group of Surgeons of the Surgeons in Action Foundation, coordinated by Dr. José A. Pascual, General Surgeon of the Clínica Centro de Madrid, Dr. Laura Vega and Dr. Libertad Martín, Surgeons of the Hospital de Alcorcón and Dr. Gloria Hernández, Anesthesiologist of the Htal de la Princesa in Madrid.

In five days they operated 50 patients, most of them with Inguinal Hernias, without complications and with very early discharges. We are very grateful for their collaboration and we do not rule out having them on another occasion.

Dr. Parise operated on two child patients who could not wait for the next Pediatric Campaign.

We were also accompanied in this Campaign by members of Producciones Variopinto, directed by Mr. Santos Blanco who together with Juan Sisto and Carlos de la Rosa made a Report in the form of personal interviews to Doctors, Sisters of the Community of the Hospital del Amor Redentor, nursing staff and operated patients, people of the town of Dangbo and the Region of Ouemé and thousands of photographs and videos that we will see as a whole in a short time. We thank them for their work and above all for the dedication and affection with which they did it.

We return to Dangbo with the help of the Surgeons in Action Foundation.

Between May 8 and 21, 2015, we conducted the 3rd Surgical Campaign to Dangbo. This time it was exclusively Pediatric Surgery, for which I invited Ms. Elena Perez Prudencio, 6th year student of Medicine at the Hospital 12 de Octubre in Madrid, now a doctor preparing the MIR exam, thus initiating a teaching project for young students and doctors in training.

The choice was a success because of Elena's knowledge and, above all, her willingness and joy and her enormous empathy with the children we saw in Consulta, more than 100, and the 50 or so we operated on.

Another novelty was the choice of Monsieur Valery Keké, a local anesthesiologist trained in Cotonou, very efficient and pleasant. This is in line with the idea of having local professionals to increase the activity of the Hospital and its operating room.

Once again, and as usual, we were very well received at the Hospital and saw patients crossing the Ouemé River, as shown in the photos. An enriching experience being received with naturalness and affection by the children's parents (not so much by them).

I am writing this a few days before leaving again to Dangbo, on October 1, 2015, this time in a Gynecological Campaign with Dr. Martinez Moratalla, Gynecologist and Obstetrician and his wife, Da. Nati Valcarcel, Operating Room Nurse, with whom I was in Cameroon, It will be a privilege for me to accompany them in this Mission so necessary in that Region, of which we will report upon our return.

On May 8, 2015, we returned to Benin focused on helping the children of Dangbo.

Between February 14 and March 2, 2014 we performed the 1st Surgical Campaign to Dangbo. Dr. Carlos Ortiz Johansson, General Surgeon, Dr. Itziar Tranche, Anesthesiologist and Dr. Jorge Parise, Children's Surgeon participated.

We were welcomed by Mother Opportune Tosse, Superior and Medical Director of the Hospital Albergue del Amor Redentor who introduced us to the rest of the Sisters of the Community, Dr. Juste Zinsou, Hospital Physician and the rest of the Staff.

We saw about 170 patients in Consultation between Friday, the day of sores and Sunday.

We prepared the Operating Room and on Monday we started operating. It is worth mentioning the performance of Dr. Itziar on whom fell the most difficult and committed burden of sleeping and waking up the patients properly.

In the following 6 days, between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m. we operated on 50 patients, children and adults under general anesthesia. The most frequent diagnoses were: inguinal hernias, cryptorchidism, breast tumors and other types of skin and cavity tumors. There were no major complications. 

The patients were admitted in a room provided only with beds and mattresses in charge of a nurse, Monsieur Gabin, an excellent nurse who wore a jacket that read: University of Navarra. In the operating room we were assisted with efficiency and sympathy by Soeur Ruffine.

We toured the region and visited the city of Cotonou, the main city of Benin.

When we returned, we began to prepare the 2nd Campaign and the idea of creating the Association Childhood and Surgery in Dangbo came up.

On February 14, 2014, we headed to Dangbo for the first time, and operated on more than 50 patients.

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