Cleft lip and palate: Chinese team to operate on 40 kids

ISLAMABAD: A team of Chinese doctors will arrive from Beijing to operate on 40 children suffering from the congenital condition of cleft lip and palate during a free medical camp in the capital from March 21 to 26. The operations will be carried out free of charge and the Chinese doctors will be assisted by Pakistani doctors and paramedics. Many of the children, who were identified for the operations at screening camps arranged on February 17 and March 3, belonged to poor families which could not bear expenses of the operations.

Published in The Express Tribune, March 13^th, 2017.