BSF puts smiles back on faces of poor people


Agartala, Nov 26 (IANS): To put smiles back on the faces of poor people born with cleft lips, 13 people were successfully operated upon by doctors at a special medical camp organised by the BSF and international NGO 'Smile Train' based in the US.

"At a two-day medical camp, 13 people, including seven children, with cleft lips and palates were successfully operated upon by doctors," Border Security Force (BSF) Deputy Inspector General Bhaskar Rawat told IANS Tuesday.

"In similar medical camps organised earlier at the BSF's Composite Hospital at the Tripura frontier headquarters at Salbagan (near Agartala), 24 such cases were surgically rectified free of cost by a medical team from Kolkata," Rawat said.

"It gave the children and aged people a new lease of life and a smile on their faces. They are now leading a normal life," he added.

With the financial aid from the US-based international non-governmental organisation (NGO) 'Smile Train', the Rotary Club of Kolkata is chipping in coordination of efforts from various agencies to give relief to the afflicted children and people.

The BSF officer said similar camps have been organised in the areas of West Bengal and Meghalaya that border Bangladesh.

The BSF official said: "After the operation, the personality and the face of the person changes totally. The BSF and its associating organisations are taking suitable pre-operative and post-operative steps for the benefit of the patients."

The surgeries would cost up to Rs.50,000 each in the normal course, but are conducted free at the camps, which are also supported by the BSF Wives Welfare Association (BWWA).

"One out of 700 children is born with cleft lips and palates. This is a genetic problem," Rotary Club of Kolkata representative Chandra Mukherjee said, quoting the experts.

Experts say about 30,000 children in India are born with cleft lips and palates every year, and less than 50 percent of them go for a treatment.

 

  

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  • Vissionary, India

    Wed, Nov 27 2013

    Not a single HOSPITAL of national importance (in terms of quality and trusted brand) exists in TRIPURA which is a must for those helpless people of state who has to run around and rush to Chennai and other cities for treatment even during those critical hours of life! - Need of the hour is to go PROACTIVE and INVITE best of the brands available (e.g FORTIS, APPOLO, MANIPAL Hospitals) to set up their HOSPITAL CHAINS at AGARTALA.

    Really hope leadership in Center & TRIPURA Govt takes a FUTURISTIC and PROGRESSIVE approach and goes BIG to put TRIPURA into national & international scheme of things and strives hard in making AGARTALA into an world class city signifying uprising India's growing prowess!

    We really need to move forward by developing TRIPURA with world class infrastructures and bring it at par with best of the other Indian states in the shortest possible time!

    Anything less than 'WORLD CLASS' would only defeat the very purpose behind infrastructure development of TRIPURA under LOOK-EAST Policy!

    IMPOSSIBLE - just means I AM POSSIBLE! If India need to catch up with developed part of the world,the most strategically placed Northeast (especially TRIPURA) need to be made into a developed region in the shortest possible time!

    I strongly believe TRIPURA govt (in close co-ordination with Center, other concerned dignitaries & all corporate vissionaries) can certainly achieve this sooner rather than late, which would definitely give its people a better employment opportunities, a better healthcare, a better access to quality education, a quality lifestyle, and last but not the least a confident and connected TRIPURA leading India's charge towards contributing to a more stable and stronger global economy!!

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