ISLAMABAD – A team of senior British doctors will perform free surgeries for cleft-lip and cleft-palate patients, from October 22-28 at Bashir Hospital in Gujrat. The patients will also be examined in Islamabad on October 20 at 9 am, at House no 7, Street 13, Sector F-8/3.
The plastic surgeries, treatment, medicines, hospitalisation, stay and food will be arranged for by the Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association (PCLAPA), which has been operating since 1996. The best results of cleft lip surgery are ensured if the children are operated upon when they are three months to one year old. PCLAPA Secretary General Dr Ijaz Bashir said the PCLAPA had already arranged 27 such camps in the past 16 years.
So far, 2,405 children have been operated upon with 100 percent success rate and more than 11,250 children are examined at the camps,” he said. APP