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Smile Train partners resume life-saving cleft surgeries in Africa

IcFEM Dreamland Mission Hospital Nutritionist Emmanuel Kwemoi examines baby Ezekiel Wanjala in Bungoma County to ascertain his readiness for cleft surgery [Photo:Courtesy]


Approximately one in every 1200 Kenyan babies is born with a cleft lip or cleft palate. Cleft lip refers to a birth defect which a child is born with. It normally occurs on the upper lip where the lip is divided at the middle, one side or both side. For some you get a division on the face from the lip to the eye.

Baby Ezekiel Wanjala (Pictured) happens to have been born with a cleft lip and will undergo the first surgery at Dreamland Mission Hospital in Bungoma County.

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