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Friday, October 27, 2023

BELA RISU CELEBRATES THREE HUNDRED CLEFT LIP SURGERIES IN ONE YEAR

Bela Risu Medical centre located in Ngara area of starehe constituency in Nairobi Kenya has this morning held celebrations to mark it's first year since it was started to give hope to children born with cleft.



Speaking during the celebration at the hospital Dr Martin  kamau CEO reconstructive and maxillofacial surgery at the hospital has said over three hundred patients have benefited from cleft lip and cleft palate
surgery,orthodontics,speech therapy, psychotherapy and nutritional support for that last one year.


Challenges faced by children born with cleft lip include feeding problems, stigmatization,poor development of hearing and speech problems.

The hospital foundation has conducted more than seven thousand cleft surgeries for free at international standards,it  also offers training and research on cleft anomalies.









NAIROBI CITY MARATHON AN ATTRACTION TO CITY EXPRESS WAY NOW A POPULAR RACE

The third edition of Nairobi city Marathon took place today in a race that seeks to explore the express way in the city a race t...