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A 15-year-old girl from the Philippines is undergoing surgery to fix her feet that are so clubbed they twist upside down and backwards. Doctors at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York are performing the surgery free of charge. How cool is that? And hot on the heels of the story we highlighted last week about a pro bono surgery to remove a large tumor from a Vietnamese girl’s face. Rock on, medical community!

[Jingle Luis] and her mother have journeyed from the Philippines to Montefiore Medical Center in the Bronx for surgery Thursday and follow-up treatment that will consist of slowly rotating her feet until she can walk normally.

Her case is more severe than those usually seen by doctors in industrialized countries.

“Generally speaking, with modern technology, it doesn’t get to this point,” said Dr. Terry Amaral, a pediatric orthopedic surgeon who will perform the surgery at Children’s Hospital at Montefiore.