A group of American medical doctors from Lakeland, Florida, have operated on two children in the city of Balti while in Moldova as part of a humanitarian mission. They claimed no payment for the surgeries.

Pedro Soler, one of them, said that in one case of surgery it was about correcting a malformation known as "wolf mouth". The surgery was successful, and the child will be able to eat, speak and hear normally after further treatment, he said. The second child was operated on twice, for "wolf mouth" and "hare lip". Both children are fine.

Moldovan medicine specialists assisted the American doctors. A surgery of this kind costs in the United States about 15,000 dollars.

The team of U.S. physicians arrived in Moldova to conduct medical diagnosis and treatment of children with hearing problems.

The Lakeland community has implemented a number of social projects in Balti. One of them was the opening of a centre for protection of children's hearing, a facility provided with equipment worth more than 100,000 dollars.