Cleft palate

Three Cape Town volunteers formed part of Operation Smile's first-ever all-women surgical programme assisting 80 children born with cleft lips and deformed ...

“Operation Smile is actively investing in education and training in order to strengthen the local health system. There is also a paucity of other specialities, such as anaesthetist physicians (only six in the whole country) and paediatricians,” Scarth said. The estimated cleft palate prevalence in Malawi is 0.67/1 000 births.