Formerly known as Operation Smile India, Mission Smile is a medical NGO dedicated to provide free life changing cleft care and surgeries to children born with cleft related facial deformities. Mission Smile conducted its first medical mission in India at Manipal, Karnataka in 2002. It was registered as a Charitable trust in New Delhi in 2003. Till today, the NGO has provided free physical examinations to more than 36,000 children and adults suffering from cleft deformities and more than 24,000 individuals have received safe corrective surgeries in India. Till date Mission Smile has conducted 73 medical missions in India.
The Dedicated Comprehensive Cleft Care Center in Guwahati, Assam is the result of a unique Public-Private Partnership between Mission Smile, the Government of Assam, the National Health Mission (NHM) and is supported by the Sir Dorabji Tata Trust and Allied Trusts. On 09, May 2011, the first surgery took place at the Center. Since then more than 14,000 patients from Assam and neighbouring states have been treated at the Center.
Further, Mission Smile is accredited by international charities like Give India USA, CAF, coupled with international tie-ups with leading Cleft foundations like Smile Asia and Future Smile Charitable Foundation.
Some of the Mission's future focus points include:
- Replicating the Assam, Meghalaya & Tripura model for rest of India with the support from state Governments.
- Making 'Cleft Free India' included in the National Health Agenda.
- Securing support through State Health Governments and NHM.
- Infrastructure to set up Comprehensive cleft care centers in existing hospitals and support to more hospitals to provide cleft care surgeries.
For more informing on how this NGO is spreading smiles everywhere, please visit, https://www.missionsmile.org/
For their noble work, Mission Smile deserves a Standing Ovation!
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