Free treatment for poor cleft lip patients
Dhaka Community Hospital in collaboration with MERCY Malaysia launched a plastic surgery programme of cleft lip and palate reconstruction from October 8 to 15 of 2010, says a press release.
The operation is free of cost and only for 60 poor patients registered by the hospital from different areas of Bangladesh through its rural health centres.
A 12-member voluntary medical team of MERCY Malaysia, an internationally renowned organisation, headed by Prof Dr Ahmad Sukari-bin-Halim will work on this purpose.
Patients and their attendants will be provided with food, accommodation and travel cost.
First Secretary of Malaysian High Commission in Bangladesh James Koh inaugurated the programme yesterday.
The programme, held twice every year, started in 2007.
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