STORY:
Dr. Paddy Dewan was sent to the Gaza Strip by the Kind Cuts for Kids Foundation. It’s not the first time he’s visited. The foundation has been sending two missions a year to Gaza for the past few years.

This ten day mission was to help patients requiring specialist treatment, and local doctors and nurses needing training.

[Doctor Paddy Dewan, Kind Cuts For Kids]:
"I personally have seen 165 patients now, and we've operated on roughly half of those patients. On this visit, I think we've done eight or ten operations already, and most of them are quite complex problems. The simple
problems are already being well looked after here. It's the more complicated problems we've come to teach and to provide the service for, while we're here."

In one life-saving operation Dewan removed a blockage stopping a two-day-old Palestinian baby from ingesting. He's also treated patients with gunshot wounds during his visits.

[Doctor Paddy Dewan, Kind Cuts For Kids]:
"Very rewarding; very productive; hard work but thoroughly enjoyable. Overwhelming, I think is a good word for it."

Palestinian health officials say the visits by the surgeons are invaluable to the people in Gaza.