Plastic Surgery For

Buka Boy

.• . a 10-year old native boy from V/ Buka, arrived in Brisbane, Queens land, by air on September 21, for plastic surgery treatment. He was shock-

ingly burned by an incendiary bomb when his knife struck and exploded it while he was helping to clear bush on Bougainville about nine months ago.

The injured boy’s jaw is now joined to his chest through contraction of the scars. He cannot straighten his right arm and one leg is twisted from the ex plosion. The contraction of scar tissues has also drawn the skin on the boy’s face down so tightly that he has to sleep with his eyes partly open.

Plastic surgeons of the Brisbane General Hospital believe that Oewisi can be treated successfully.

Oewisi after he had arrived in Brisbane by plane. —By courtesy Brisbane “Courier Mail.”