OCL were delighted to send, in partnership with the Christina Noble Charitable Foundation, teams specialising in Surgical Oncology(x2), Interventional Radiology, Neurosurgery and Urology to City Children’s Hospital and Children’s Hospital Number 2, Ho Chi Minh City for a 1 week mission in Nov

Thanks to all the Operation Childlife supporters, partners, volunteers, and friends for another great year changing children's lives!

Thanks to support from the Emirates Airline Foundation, OCL sent two teams of volunteers to spend one week each at the Red Crescent Hospital in Amman Jordan in November, as part of an ongoing collaboration between the Jordanian and Bahraini Red Crescent Societies (JRCS/BRCS), RCSI Bahrain and OCL.

OCL and Children's Health Ireland(CHI) were delighted to welcome Vietnamese Anaesthetists Dr Hanh and Dr Nhat to Dublin for a 6 week visit to observe the CHI at Crumlin Paediatric Acute Pain Team. Thanks to support from the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation and the Emirates Airline Foundation.

Operation Childlife volunteers Prof. Martin Corbally and Dr Paul Oslizlok with a team from the Children's Hospital, Boston. With support from the Buchanan Foundation, they visited the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Ghana in September, to discuss training opportunities for their local colleagues.

Operation Childlife volunteers delivered the Paediatric Acute Surgical Support (PASS) Training course in Jordan in October, in collaboration with course creator Prof. Ai Xuan Holterman and her team, and our Jordanian Red Crescent Hospital partners, with support from the Emirates Airline Foundation

With support from the Emirates Airline Foundation, OCL volunteers ran a PICU/NICU nursing bootcamp over four days in Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania. Our fantastic, expert, volunteers, delivered training on core areas of paediatric critical care nursing, to nurses from two local hospitals.

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A team of OCL volunteers just completed a successful mission at the Jordanian Red Crescent Hospital Amman, completing 27 surgeries and seeing 37 clinic patients, all children, many of them Syrian refugees. Part of an ongoing collaboration between OCL, Jordan and Bahrain Red Crescent and RCSI Bahrain

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Great day out The Wheel Summit 2025, with OCL's Dr Cormac Kilty, meeting other NGO's and learning about developments in our sector. We were particularly delighted to meet with the team from Ecclesiastical Insurance Office (Ireland) to thank them for our recent funding from the Benefact Group

Operation Childlife has received a £5,000 boost thanks to Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards – a programme that gives over £1 million in funding to UK and Ireland charities each year. Thanks to all our wonderful supporters who nominated us #movementforgood

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Baby Janay, just one week old, the day after his life-saving Pulmonary Atresia Perforation, performed by Operation Childlife Volunteers during a clinical mission in February, to Children’s Hospital No.2, Ho Chi Minh City, in partnership with the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation.

One year old Naswirinia with Prof. Martin Corbally, Consultant Paediatric Surgeon and OCL founder. Naswirinia was born with a very narrowed lower oesophagus and could not eat or swallow. Following a recent esophageal dilatation performed by the OCL team she is now able to swallow food normally.

OCL Transforming Lives – Keegan (8) and his father with OCL volunteer Dr Alshafie, who performed his successful final hypospadias surgery (usually completed in infancy in Ireland), during a recent OCL mission to Tanzania. Keegan had a difficult path, previously undergoing 9 unsuccessful surgeries.

Some of our fantastic OCL volunteers Prof. Martin Corbally, Dr Dhafir Al Khudhairi and Dr Nicola Cullen, recipient of the OCL and RCSI Travel Fellowship, with RCSI Bahrain student observers and members of the local team, during a week-long medical mission to Muhimbili National Hospital, Tanzania

Operation Childlife volunteer Dr Abdulrahman Alshafei, Neonatal/Paediatric Surgery and Paediatric Urology specialist, in action in Muhimbili National Hospital, Dar es Salaam this week, transforming the lives of sick children and training local medics #medicalaltruism

Our wonderful cardiologists and cardiac surgeons were in Children’s Hospital No 2 in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam last week. Our mission to transform children’s lives by conducting complex surgeries and training local medical professionals continues to grow from strength to strength. #medicalaltruism