Silchar, March 05: After adding a smile to many families, especially those with Downs Syndrome as well as Cleft Palate during their Mission Barak under the Smile Train Shija Cleft Project, the team of Shija Hospitals and Research Centre led by its Managing Director as well as members of Rotary Club of Imphal and Rotary Club of Silchar and media persons are set to return to Imphal today.

The tour for Mission Barak started from March 3. During the Mission, Dr Palin, president elect of Rotary Club of Imphal and MD of SHRI and his team screened a number children born with cleft palate and Downs Syndrome at Valley Hospital and Research Centre, Silchar on March 4 and 5. Arrangements to bring the children with cleft palate for necessary surgery at SHRI have been finalised.

The children will be treated free of cost.

During a function at the Rotary Club of Silchar, Dr Palin noted that given the population at Barak valley in Assam, there should be at least 2500 children born with cleft palate.

It is necessary that information that children with such defects can be set right reach the people there, he said and added that it was precisely to spread this message that SHRI along with the Rotary Clubs of Imphal and Silchar launched the Mission Barak.

Since the necessary surgery needs to be done under a hospital chosen for the Smile Train, the children are being taken to Imphal, he informed.

Secondary surgery will also be performed for children who have undergone the same process but without the desired result, assured the MD of SHRI.

Speaking at the occasion, vice president of the Rotary Club of Silchar, NK Purkhayastha said that the camp is the first of its kind to be held in Silchar.

Even though there are three hospitals at Guwahati which have the Smile Train Project, nothing is heard at Silchar, he declared and assured that the Rotary Club of Silchar will put its best effort forward to spread the message of work taken up by SHRI under the Smile Train Project.

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