Four eminent British consultant plastic surgeons will operate upon poor children suffering from cleft lip and cleft palate, and other clefermities, from all over Pakistan at the charitable Bashir Hospital, Gujrat from March 26 onwards.
The operations for poor children will continue for ten days, until April 4. Bashir Hospital, offers free medical treatment and operations of reconstructive surgery to poor cleft lip and palate patients from all over Pakistan, said a press release issued here on Thursday.
Pakistan Cleft Lip and Palate Association (PCLAPA) is arranging these operations, treatment and then follow up services at Bashir Hospital, in co-operation with financial assistance provided by Gujrat's Decent Welfare society, since 1994.
This humanitarian work is financed by charity including 'Zakat' and domestic and foreign donations.
Ms Shaheen Attique ur Rehman, former Minister for Social Welfare and Women's Development, Punjab, is patron of PCLAPA. Eminent Plastic Surgeon Dr Aman Ullah Khan Raja is PCLAPA's president.
The association arranges plastic surgery camps at the hospital twice a year, in a statement by Dr Ijaz Bashir, administrator and general secretary of PCLAPA, said in a statement here.
He said that four thousand patients have been provided full surgery and treatment since 1994.
Besides reconstructive surgery for cleft lip and cleft palate, children born with deformed hands and feet or suffering from defects because of accidents, will also be operated upon.