Health: Cleft patients to smile as NorthWest Regional Assembly signs Partnership with Smile Train.
Health: Hope for Cleft patients as Northwest Regional Assembly signs partnership with Smile Train. By Ruth Che Wachong Cleft patients in the Northwest Region shall henceforth enjoy free medical care and follow up. This is one of the fallouts of a partnership between the Northwest Regional Assembly and Smile Train, an NGO whose mission is to fight against Cleft lip stigmatization. Professor Fru Angwafor III of NWRA and Dr Nicole Bouba shake hands after signing the MoU Children born with Cleft lip have speech and sound deficiencies, which can be handled if reported to the appropriate authorities/ hospital. The MoU shall educate people about prevention, management and treatment of Cleft lip. Children born with Cleft Speaking to the Press Thursday, the Director of Smile Train West and Central Africa, Dr Nicole Bouba says there are over 800 cases of cleft birth in Cameroon annually. And children born with cleft are usually isolated and discriminated upon. She called on denizens of