British Doctors To Treat Pakistan's Cleft-Lip Children

Friday, 21 October 2011, 16:37 IST
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Islamabad: A team of British doctors will give free treatment to cleft-lip and cleft-palate children as part of a health camp organized by a charity. The NGO Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association is organising the programme, Daily Times reported Thursday. Free surgery, medicines and hospitalization facilities will be provided. Akhtar Rahman, president of the association for Islamabad, said patients are now being registered for surgery. Cleft lip and palate are variations of a type of clefting congenital deformity caused by abnormal facial development.
Source: IANS