Bundang Cha Hospital, Love Messenger Exercise Active...Giving New Life to Overseas Patients
Nov 25, 2025
Cha Medical University Bundang Cha Hospital (Director Yoon Sang-wook) invited a woman in her 40s who had difficulty communicating due to palpitations and an 8-year-old boy who had difficulty in daily life due to cochlear fistula as part of the 「Love Messenger Movement」 to support free surgery. The treatment was jointly sponsored by Bundang Cha Hospital, the Korea Health Industry Promotion Agency, Operation Smile Korea, Gyeonggi-do Medical Association, and World Human Bridge.
Nita (41) was born with bilateral cleft palate, but she did not receive professional surgery due to poor family conditions and poor medical environment in the Philippines. Usually, the cleft palate surgery is treated through the second surgery if the problem of pronunciation persists, with the first surgery between 9 and 18 months of age and the pronunciation correction if necessary after the age of three.
It is not a simple suture, but a high-level reconstruction plastic surgery that requires consideration of the function of the research dog, and language training should be accompanied. However, Mr. Nita had difficulty speaking because the oral and nasal structures were not separated due to 'cavitary fistula' and 'cavitary occlusion failure' due to surgical complications of cleft palate, and the function of the canopy and pharynx was insufficient. Because of this, it was not easy to communicate with people, and I couldn't eat properly due to a hole in my mouth.
Kim Seok-hwa, a plastic surgeon, said, `Replacing the muscles to perform the functions of the research dog, induced the pronunciation to be accurate by stretching the research dog"If vocalization, resonance training, and muscle strengthening exercises are combined after recovery, we expect that our pronunciation will be much better, so we can enjoy a normal daily life of communicating with others."
Temulen (8) was born with a short middle finger of his left hand and a short middle finger of his right hand with three fingers of his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger attached. Mongolia's medical environment was not good, so he could not undergo surgery. He was a child who could live a simple daily life such as eating, changing, and writing, and had excellent school grades, but as the grade went up, uncomfortable situations increased and companionship contracted.
Treatment for coagulosis requires sophisticated reconstructive surgery that creates new skin between fingers, not just 'to separate the attached fingers'. Professor Kim Deok-yeol of Plastic Surgery said "Three fingers were attached and overlapped with each other, so it was necessary to separate each finger so that it could move and grow independently." Afterwards, the skin of the inguinal part was collected and transplanted to fill the insufficient skin of the cracked fingers. If the surgical site is stabilized and rehabilitation exercises are carried out steadily in the future, we expect that the function of the fingers will be restored and the length of the fingers will be grown."
Maiyamashren, a Mongolian radiologist and a mother of Temulen, said, `It hurt my heart that a bright and cheerful child who wanted to do it because he had a lot of independence even though his fingers were attached to him had a hard time after going to school.' `I sincerely thank the staff of various sponsorship organizations, including the medical staff of Bundang Cha Hospital, who came so far to help him get treatment. I was surprised by Korea's state-of-the-art medical technology, systematic treatment systems and state-of-the-art equipment that I watched while being treated, and I think I will keep thinking about it even while I was treating at a hospital in Mongolia."
Since 1998, Bundang Cha Hospital has been conducting a 'Love Messenger Movement' that supports surgery and treatment for patients who are not treated due to economic difficulties. Starting with domestic treatment in 1998, 192 foreign patients from Yanven, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Nepal, and Bangladesh in China were treated for 27 years. It also provides 900 medical expenses for low-income patients in Korea every year.
Nita (41) was born with bilateral cleft palate, but she did not receive professional surgery due to poor family conditions and poor medical environment in the Philippines. Usually, the cleft palate surgery is treated through the second surgery if the problem of pronunciation persists, with the first surgery between 9 and 18 months of age and the pronunciation correction if necessary after the age of three.
It is not a simple suture, but a high-level reconstruction plastic surgery that requires consideration of the function of the research dog, and language training should be accompanied. However, Mr. Nita had difficulty speaking because the oral and nasal structures were not separated due to 'cavitary fistula' and 'cavitary occlusion failure' due to surgical complications of cleft palate, and the function of the canopy and pharynx was insufficient. Because of this, it was not easy to communicate with people, and I couldn't eat properly due to a hole in my mouth.
Kim Seok-hwa, a plastic surgeon, said, `Replacing the muscles to perform the functions of the research dog, induced the pronunciation to be accurate by stretching the research dog"If vocalization, resonance training, and muscle strengthening exercises are combined after recovery, we expect that our pronunciation will be much better, so we can enjoy a normal daily life of communicating with others."
Temulen (8) was born with a short middle finger of his left hand and a short middle finger of his right hand with three fingers of his index finger, middle finger, and ring finger attached. Mongolia's medical environment was not good, so he could not undergo surgery. He was a child who could live a simple daily life such as eating, changing, and writing, and had excellent school grades, but as the grade went up, uncomfortable situations increased and companionship contracted.
Treatment for coagulosis requires sophisticated reconstructive surgery that creates new skin between fingers, not just 'to separate the attached fingers'. Professor Kim Deok-yeol of Plastic Surgery said "Three fingers were attached and overlapped with each other, so it was necessary to separate each finger so that it could move and grow independently." Afterwards, the skin of the inguinal part was collected and transplanted to fill the insufficient skin of the cracked fingers. If the surgical site is stabilized and rehabilitation exercises are carried out steadily in the future, we expect that the function of the fingers will be restored and the length of the fingers will be grown."
Maiyamashren, a Mongolian radiologist and a mother of Temulen, said, `It hurt my heart that a bright and cheerful child who wanted to do it because he had a lot of independence even though his fingers were attached to him had a hard time after going to school.' `I sincerely thank the staff of various sponsorship organizations, including the medical staff of Bundang Cha Hospital, who came so far to help him get treatment. I was surprised by Korea's state-of-the-art medical technology, systematic treatment systems and state-of-the-art equipment that I watched while being treated, and I think I will keep thinking about it even while I was treating at a hospital in Mongolia."
Since 1998, Bundang Cha Hospital has been conducting a 'Love Messenger Movement' that supports surgery and treatment for patients who are not treated due to economic difficulties. Starting with domestic treatment in 1998, 192 foreign patients from Yanven, Uzbekistan, Mongolia, Nepal, and Bangladesh in China were treated for 27 years. It also provides 900 medical expenses for low-income patients in Korea every year.
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