Bangladesh

Central Hospital Limited
Located in Bangladesh, Central Hospital Limited (CHL) offers quality medical care to its patients. Amongst its programs, CHL has been providing partially subsidized cleft lip and palate treatment to indigent children in Bangladesh. However, due to financial difficulties, the number of patients benefiting from this service is limited. In The Smile Train’s dedication to helping poor children with cleft lip and palate, a partnership has been established with Central Hospital Limited. This agreement will enable the hospital to provide 500 underserved children with free cleft lip and palate treatment. Dr. AJM Salek will be overseeing this program.

Dr. AJM Salek
Central Hospital Limited
House #2, Road #5, Green Road
Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205
Bangladesh

Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Gonoshasthaya Kendra, a non-profit organization and hospital in Dhaka, Bangladesh, was established on the basis of helping those who cannot afford and do not have access to primary medical services. There are a large number of untreated cleft lips and palates in Bangladesh due to poor economic conditions and a lack of plastic surgeons in the area. The Smile Train is partnering with Gonoshasthaya Kendra to enable them to provide more children with cleft services, train more doctors on the treatment of clefts, and improve the quality of cleft care. Dr. Swaran Arora will be overseeing this project.

Gonoshasthaya Kendra
Dr. Morshed Chowdhury, Director
House 14/E, Road 6, Dhanmondi
Dhaka 1205
Bangladesh
Phone: 8802-861-7208
Fax: 8802-861-3567

Interplast Incubator Site
In Dhaka, Bangladesh, The Smile Train is funding an Incubator Program through Interplast, Inc. Dr. Shafquat Hussain Khundkar is the host colleague in Bangladesh which Interplast oversees and manages. Dr. Khundkar has steadily been assisting children born with clefts in need of primary surgical repair since joining the program in the early fall of 1999. Over 200 indigent children with cleft lip and palate have already been treated with increasingly greater numbers reached through this program.

Dr. Shafquat H. Khundkar
Road -5, House -20, Dhanmondi
Banani Model Town
Dhaka 1213
Bangladesh

Impact Foundation Bangladesh
Impact Foundation Bangladesh (IFB), located in Dhaka, was created to help poor children suffering from preventable and treatable disabilities. IFB has been providing free treatment for children with cleft lip. The Smile Train is partnering with Impact Foundation Bangladesh enabling them to provide 200 children with free cleft lip surgery. This project will be managed by Christina M. Rozario.

Impact Foundation Bangladesh
Christina M. Rozario
Apt # D-1, House #19, Road 4, Gulshan-1
Dhaka 1212
Bangladesh

Radboud University Medical Center
Radboud University Medical Center in The Netherlands is dedicated to training surgeons and providing free cleft treatment through missions to Faridpur, Bangladesh. When they began four years ago, there were no local plastic surgeons able to care for cleft patients in Faridpur. Now, they have trained 5 local cleft surgeons, returning annually to continue their training and help with the backlog of cases. On average, each mission provides free treatment to 150 cleft patients. Radboud's commitment to cleft treatment in Faridpur has been recognized by the Honorable Minister of the Social Welfare Government of the People's Republic of Bangladesh and the President of the Bangladesh Medical Association.

With a Smile Train Treatment and Education Grant awarded in August 2006, Radboud can continue to improve the quality of cleft care in Faridpur and treat additional cleft patients during each mission.

Dr. Paul H.M Spauwen
Professor of Plastic Surgery
Radboud University Medical Center
Caesarstraat 20
6522 LG Nijmegen
The Netherlands
Phone: 31 24 3239354

Renaissance Hospital and Research Centre
Cleft cases are found in all age groups because most people in Bangladesh are very poor, and very few have access to medical treatment. Dr. Hasan Sarwar, a pediatric surgeon, started a mobile cleft mission at different hospitals in Bangladesh to reach out to the poor. His surgical team worked for free and treated 66 patients with clefts in the last year. A Treatment Grant from The Smile Train will enable Dr. Sarwar to treat additional poor patients with clefts in Bangladesh.

Dr. Hasan Sarwar, Pediatric Surgeon
Renaissance Hospital & Research Centre
House No-60, Road No-4A
Dhanmondi, Dhaka 1205
Bangladesh
Phone: 880-2-966-4930
Fax: 880-2-966-4930

Society for Rehabilitation of Burn Victims (SRBV) & City Hospital
It is estimated that thousands of children in Bangladesh suffer from cleft lip and palate. In Dhaka, many people are not aware that surgical correction for cleft lip and palate is possible. The majority of those that do know of the operation cannot afford it and do not have access to cleft care. The Society for Rehabilitation of Burn Victims (SRBV) treats poor children from different parts of the country with supervision from Dr. Md. Shahidul Bari, a consultant surgeon at SRBV & City Hospital, and his colleagues. The Treatment Grant from The Smile Train under the direction of Dr. Bari has increased the number of cleft lip and palate surgeries and improved cleft care at SRBV & City Hospital.

Dr. Shahidul Bari, Secretary General
69/I/1 Pathopath
Dhaka 1205
Bangladesh
Phone: 88-02-8617852, 88-02-8623205