Smile Train Story – Ruksana

When little Ruksana saw her face in the mirror, she couldn't hold back the tears and thought it was her destiny to wear that deformed face for life. In fact, she was born into a poor family with a congenital cleft lip deformity and was operated on in her early childhood by a local doctor who was not qualified enough to do justice to this type of deformity. The result was a more deformed face that was now even more difficult to fix than before. In the following years, the trauma in the family continued to increase with the untimely death of Ruksana's father, who was killed in a terrorist attack in Dodha, Jammu. When the family's main breadwinner left, the slim chance of Ruksanas getting her scarred lip repaired disappeared. Now the baby's mother had to work day and night to earn a living. They couldn't even afford two meals a day.

It was never in their dreams that they would correct the deformity on the baby's face. Once, while working in a house, he discussed his problems with the people there. They told him that there is also a boy with a cleft lip in his family, who underwent surgery in a hospital in Amritsar. This was done under an organization called the smile train. So you can also operate on your baby for free. It was like a dream come true for the mother to see the dream of her son's smiling face like other normal children. But things are not so easy; He did not even have the means of transportation to go to Amritsar or the money to do so.

He tried to contact the hospital by phone, he was informed that the smile train also bears the transportation costs. Meanwhile, he came into contact with a patient who was operated on at Amandeep Hospital and was told that Ruksana would be taken for treatment at Amandeep Hospital in Amritsar. Their mother happily accepted and they were taken to Amandeep Hospital in Amritsar. Ruksana and her mother were surprised to see the various facilities that Amandeep Hospital provides in the smile train room, such as accommodation, meals, surgery, round trip expenses, free children's toys with an assistant.

Upon arrival, a team of doctors performed a full examination and the case was scheduled for the following day. The next day she was operated on by a team of super-specialized plastic surgeons. Due to the previous surgical scars, it was not easy to give Ruksana the face of her dreams, the presence of plastic surgeons with the latest surgical equipment and techniques made the change and plastic surgeons were able to correct her secondary deformity well. . When he saw her face after the operation, he cried again, but this time the tears were of happiness because his life had changed forever.