Cape Town surgeon offers free surgery to breast cancer patients
A combination of being a dreamer and doer, and having a passion for medicine and a caring heart, are some of the ingredients which pushed a Cape Town specialist surgeon to launch an NPO offering free surgery to breast cancer patients.
Breast surgeon Dr Liana Roodt’s Project Flamingo, a non-profit company, provides surgeries to breast cancer patients with an aim to reduce the surgical waiting time in public health care.
According to the Project Flamingo website, when faced with the heartbreaking, stretched-out and often chaotic journey breast cancer patients experience in the public health sector, Roodt decided something needed to be done.
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