Ghana

Since 2011, Operation Smile has conducted medical programs across Ghana in cities including Accra, Cape Coast, Tamale, and Tema.

Operation Smile’s global volunteer network includes over a dozen medical professionals from Ghana who donate their time in Ghana and around the world. Operation Smile has conducted seven medical missions in Ghana and treated more than 550 patients with cleft lip, cleft palate and other facial deformities.

Recent news & activity from Ghana

this is a picture of Precious from Ghana

Posted onNov 13, 2021November 13, 2021
Patient Stories
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Ghana

Precious from Ghana

Precious was born in March 2019 in the eastern region of Ghana and is the youngest of five children. Her mother Charlotte said Precious’ cleft condition went undetected during her…

Healing more patients than ever

From Cape Coast to Koforidua, the Operation Smile Ghana team has rapidly changed the way people living in the most remote and impoverished places in the country are accessing cleft…

The road to Ramata’s smile

While Ghana offers some of Africa’s most beautiful landscapes, it also suffers from a lack of adequate infrastructure, health care services and economic opportunities, resulting in some of the world’s…