FREE CLEFT SURGERY CAMPS

Cleft lip and cleft palate (a kind of facial deformity in which 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. Annually 9,000+ children are born with Cleft Lip or Cleft Palate in Pakistan and 90% of these affected children belong to low income group families. Only 40% get treated and 60% of these children are being neglected every year.

Al-Mustafa Welfare Society arranges Free Cleft Lip and Palate surgery Camps and awareness seminars. We have successfully organized more than 100 free cleft surgery camps throughout Pakistan especially in the suburban areas where people live in extremely underdeveloped conditions and are economically very poor. Our experts surgeons, with their team of surgeons and technical staff, perform plastic surgeries of cleft lip and palate patients in mobile operation theaters during these camps.