In Nigeria, an NGO Is Making Children Born With Cleft Smile Again THISDAYLIVE: Nigeria
In December, three months after Gideon's birth, Destiny's sister whose son also had a cleft of the palate told her about how she came to the National Orthopaedic Hospital, Enugu, where- a non-profit organization that provides free cleft surgeries for children, sponsored one for her child and he became well again.
In March 2022, when Gideon became 1 year and 4 months, his mother brough him back to the hospital to have his cleft palate repair. Usually, Onah said, cleft palate repair is done when the child is about a year. "While the anaesthesia-use of medicines to prevent pain during surgery and other procedures- started around 11am, the surgery itself started at 11:45 and ended at 1:30," he said."Cleft palate takes a significantly longer time than the cleft lip which takes between 45 minutes and 1 hour to do"."I am glad I did not listen to those who asked me to abandon him," she said."I did not even spend any money on the surgery.
Continuing, he said"I have listened to the patients I have operated on and honestly, when you hear them talk, you appreciate the extent of their psychological and psychosocial deprivation,". "At first, I thought it was because of how I lay her,"she said."I had to change her position and even put pillow on her head, but nothing changed. She continued to throw up through her nose".
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