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Operation Footprint

Dr. Neeta Hasmukh has volunteered with Operation Footprint since 2022, providing free surgical care for children in India, Honduras, and El Salvador.

The Operation Footprint surgical team in scrubs and caps, gathered in a hospital corridor in Honduras

Together, our doctor and Operation Footprint are changing lives

Dr. Hasmukh has volunteered as a surgeon with Operation Footprint since 2022, on missions to India, Honduras, and El Salvador. She has travelled twice a year, to Honduras in January and to India in September or October, to provide free surgical care to children whose families could not afford it. Those children live with inherited and acquired conditions of the foot and ankle, among them clubfoot, deformities left behind by polio, severe flatfoot, and cerebral palsy. Patients of every age at the practice appreciate that commitment to continuing education and to the work being done overseas.

Honduras, January 2024

In January 2024, Dr. Hasmukh joined Operation Footprint's annual mission to Honduras. The mission cared for people with genetic foot and ankle deformities who had been neglected in their care and were limited in their daily lives. The visiting surgeons also worked alongside local surgeons, so that foot and ankle conditions could go on being managed after the camp ended. The team saw more than 250 patients and prepared 30 of them for surgery.

Over three days the team performed 24 surgeries, addressing clubfoot, cavus reconstruction, and flatfoot reconstruction among other conditions. The patients ranged in age from 2 to 53. Each surgery averaged three hours, seventy-two hours of surgery in three days.

The team also met people living with other serious genetic and neurological conditions, including hydrocephalus, cerebral palsy, myelomeningocele, and spina bifida. Even the most skilled physicians are limited in what they can do for children with conditions like these, but the team provided comprehensive care for every patient despite the complexity. Through that expertise and dedication, Dr. Hasmukh and the Operation Footprint team left a lasting mark on the people they served in Honduras.

About Operation Footprint

For more than 40 years, with 3,000 major surgical reconstructions and 30,000 patient visits, Operation Footprint has provided free surgical care to children in need and trained local surgeons to treat podiatric conditions.

Photographs from Honduras, January 2024

  • A boy sitting up on a hospital bed with a picture book and a teddy bear, one leg in a cast
  • A girl resting in a hospital bed with a bandaged leg, a caregiver at her side
  • A young woman in a hospital gown sitting up in bed with two visitors beside her
  • A close view of a patient's foot and ankle
  • A young boy sitting on a bed with both legs in casts
  • A girl in pyjamas standing beside a member of the team
  • A baby held in a caregiver's arms
  • A boy giving a thumbs up beside a member of the team
  • A member of the team hugging a child whose leg is in a cast
  • A smiling member of the team holding a baby wrapped in a towel, with a small cast on one leg

Photographs from other Operation Footprint visits

  • A child seated on an examination table
  • A patient's legs and feet, standing
  • A patient's foot resting on a sheet
  • A patient's lower legs and feet, seen from the front
  • A child seated on an examination bed
  • A child standing beside a member of the team who is holding a clipboard
  • A patient walking with a crutch and a cane in a clinic corridor
  • A baby's foot being examined
  • A boy wearing a mask, seated beside a member of the team in a gown
  • A girl resting in a hospital bed with a bandaged leg
  • A patient's bare feet standing on a tiled floor
  • A patient's foot and ankle resting on a surgical drape

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