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  I'm sure you are wondering what connection you have here. Well, the link is that these are the complaints kids with cleft lip generally make. Do you know what a cleft lip is? If not, this is what it is. The cleft lip is the opening in the baby's upper lip due to improper closure of the facial structure during its development in the womb. This problem is treatable, but society does not accept it and treats children who are born with a cleft lip badly. But Amandeep Hospital in partnership with Smile Train emerged like a ray of light at the end of the tunnel for those families who had lost all hope of seeing their children as other normal children. Smile Train is a New York-based organization founded in 1999. It has an extensive network of free cleft lip and palate surgeries in 87 countries. In partnership with Amandeep Hospital, more than 8000 free surgeries have been performed since 2004 along with other benefits such as travel expenses, speech therapy, and orthodontic treatm...

  Idnan Choudhary third child of Mir Hussain and Rubina was born with the deformity of cleft lip and palate. All near and dear ones started cursing the couple. A normal parent would have frightened after seeing such a deformity in their child. But this time it was different, as parents were a bit relaxed. They were knowing that this deformity is correctable with the help of surgery and they were also knowing the place where it has to be done. As the mother of Idnan, Rubina was also born with a similar deformity even the uglier one bilateral cleft lip. She had suffered this wrath of the creator through her whole life till she met her savior Mir Hussain in the form of the husband. Before meeting Mir, she was rejected many times by several boys for marriage. But Mir Hussain not only married her but after the marriage, he brought his wife to Smile Train accredited Amandeep Hospital, Amritsar where she was operated on free of cost in 2009. Mir had earlier seen a couple of children in...

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 discus...

  When Baby Priya was born, nobody was ready to hold and accept the child, even the Mother was afraid that what god has done to them. Parents used to keep the child hidden in their home from relative, neighbors and visitors, taking this as a social stigma. Parents thought that they will have to brought up the child like this and they were worried about this that how they will face the various comments of the society. Meanwhile parents went to consult their family doctor. He told that this condition can be cured by surgery. They were informed that complete treatment of this deformity is available at various Smile train centers and they came to know by nursing staff working at  Amandeep Hospital , who was relative of their neighbor about surgery carried out at  Amandeep Hospital  Amritsar (Smile Train Accredited Centre). Parents saw a ray of hope and felt very happy. Free Treatment was like a dream come true for the parents since they are from a middle class family. Th...

  Khirat Lal Sharma worked as a waiter in hotel in a small town near Fazilka. He and his wife, Rekha Sharma used to remain frustrated as they were socially cut off. Reason being their newly born son Prince having cleft lip cut on one side. The parents were very complexed as no one came to congratulate the birth of their newly born child. They were very poor and did not interact with anyone regarding his treatment. They were psychologically crippled and had lost all hope of their son getting a normal face and living a normal life. Prince was deprived of all education as children used to laugh at him. He grew up with time to adulthood deprived of the love of his family. To earn his living, he started with the profession of a driver. One fine day, when he was 20 years old, he came across a poster on way back home from his regular work routine. The poster was about the smile train sponsored camp in that area. He decided to visit the camp alone and there he was advised by the doctors to...

Sandeep Singh and Rekha Bala were blessed with a baby boy Shivansh after 12 long years of their marriage but the happiness of both the parents went half when they saw the face of their son, as he was born with   cleft lip   cut on one side. His father felt devastated as he himself had cleft palate and was operated for the same in his childhood at a private hospital in Udhampur, which was very expensive and the results were highly unsatisfactory as he developed palatal fistula after surgery and his speech was also incomprehensible.  Sandeep worked as a labourer in a factory. His wages were hardly sufficient to meet the family’s daily needs. However, both parents kept on giving all the love and care to Shivansh, but they were apprehensive about the future of their son. Time kept on passing when Shivansh was 4 months old, one of Sandeep’s friend informed him about a camp which was organized by a smile train accredited centre in Jammu, regarding the facility of free treatment...

  Limsha was born with a congenital deformity of  cleft lip , she was operated in childhood and the matter of concern for her now was her nose as her nose was also deformed due to the deformity. Limsha was 17 now and was planning to go to the college next year and she was having an inferiority complex in her mind relating to her nose deformity. Limsha told her mother Rajrani that she would not join the college as she had a great complex regarding her nose deformity.  Rajrani discussed this issue with her husband Surjit and they both decided to get it corrected but the arrangements of funds was a problem for them as they were from a poor family but they wanted that their daughter should join the college. One day suddenly Rajrani met her friend in a fair who told her about the smile train project and the free state of the art treatment under this project in many hospitals. She also told her about the   Amandeep hospital   in Amritsar where such surgeries are done ...

When Anukriti was born to Devendra and Beena Devi in the remote hilly area of Tehri Garhwal , local doctors told that the baby is born with a congenital deformity in which the lip and palate of the baby are cleft on both the sides and it will not be possible to treat such baby in their hospital and they will have to go to big cities and will have to spend for the procedure from their pocket. Both Devendra and Beena Devi were poor and hopeless, they kept on accumulating funds for their daughters but they knew that they will not be able to get the desired funds ever .  Have a look at more smile train stories of Amandeep Hospital

  Indersingh and Lata were blessed with the twin daughters Mishti and Pari. But the happiness of both the parents went half when they saw the face of one of their daughter Mishthi that was born with the cleft of the lip and palate . They kept on giving all the love and care to both of their daughters but they were very apprehensive about the future of Mishthi. As they lived in a hilly area medical facilities were not nearby them. Time kept on passing and 6 months elapsed one fine day Indersingh met Jimeet his friend from nearby village and discussed his daughters problem with him, Jimeet told him that his daughter Prakriti was also born with cleft deformity and he was also very worried for her treatment and then someone told him about the smile train project at Amandeep hospital where all patients with such deformity are treated free of cost. Jimeet showed the photograph of her daughter at birth and called Prakriti, Indersingh could not believe his eyes when he saw normal face of P...