Nineteen young inhabitants of the Solomon Islands have received surgical interventions by a volunteering medical team from Auckland last week.

The doctors and nurses from the Starship Hospital in Auckland temporarily switched their workplace to the National Referral Hospital in Honiara and operated the severely diseased children.

The medical team already conducted its second visit and looked at symptoms of 50 patients, of which 19 required surgeries. "The cases were complex," Dr. Rooney Jagilly expresses. "Most of them are related to congenital urinary tract and also to anal rectal abnormalities".

The guest operations were organized by the Royal Austin College of Surgeons and financially supported by AUSAid.

The operations were conducted by medical experts and exceeded the medical capacity of the surgeons who work at the Honiara health clinic.