Cleft lip and cleft palate (where the two sides of the upper lip or roof of the mouth fail to join) are a common problem. Children born with these conditions have difficulty breastfeeding and are often chronically malnourished. Later, an untreated cleft can cause a speech impediment, as well as dental or middle ear problems. Even more tragically, the children and their mothers are sometimes shunned by their families or society for this deformity. CLEFT LIP & PALATE FACTS

• Annually 9,000+ children are born with Cleft Lip or Cleft Palate in Pakistan.
• Only 40% get treated and 60% are being neglected every year.
• 90% Children belong to low income group families.

OUR SERVICES

Al-Mustafa Welfare Society has been doing free cleft surgeries throughout Pakistan since year 2007. Al-Mustafa Welfare Society also has a vast experience of organizing free medical camps throughout Pakistan. We have successfully organized more than 100 free cleft surgery camps across the country, focusing the rural and suburban areas where people live in extremely underdeveloped conditions and are economically very poor. In these camps patients are examined and provided free prescribed medicines and our surgeons perform free surgeries in our mobile operation theater.

Cost = PKR 70,000 / $260