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Erica Sison is a six year old girl from Dagupan City,Philippines who suffers from a very rare form of congenital facial deformity. Her condition was so complicated that if corrective surgeries were to be made, it was professionally recommended that it has to be done in the United States. Dr. Lutchie Racela, the first elected and founding president of the Lions Club Kansas City Chapter, made the initiative to personally bring Erica and her mother, Merlita, to Kansas City, last November. Through the financial aid and sponsorship of the newly formed Kansas City World Outreach Lions Club, in collaboration with the Medical Mission Foundation,First Hand Foundation,Lions Club District 26D, Cerner Corporation, the Philippine and US officials , and other volunteers, Erica came to the United States for multiple corrective plastic surgeries . Dr.John Herbert and his St. Luke's Hospital team performed the initial surgery. Erika stayed with host families post operatively. The PNAGKC nurses join Medical Mission Foundation nurses in providing home
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