ROMAC – Rotary Oceania Medical Aid for Children
I hope a number of you saw the great promotion Rotary got from TV One News last Tuesday night. It featured Rotarian Murray Pearce speaking about ROMAC and baby Rosalia.
I had the privilege of meeting them earlier in the year when they came to Christchurch for Rosalia’s first operation when she was 6 weeks old. She was born with a large growth on the side of her head covering where her eye should be. An eye socket hadn’t developed so they removed the growth and grafted bone to form the beginnings of a socket. This has been very successful and now Rosalia is back for her second operation to form more socket to take a glass eye.
Ronald McDonald have been wonderful as they support overseas families, such as this, to stay and be supported throughout this time. Murray Pearce is the South Island Coordinator for families with children going through the ROMAC programme and has done a superb job of looking after them.
ROMAC is totally funded by donations and has a group of Doctors and professionals throughout New Zealand who give their time free to perform life changing operations.
Go our Rotary District - 9970 Facebook page to see the article and the video from TV ONE