{"id":10027612,"date":"2024-10-02T18:56:09","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T17:56:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/uncategorized\/hafsa-from-somalia\/"},"modified":"2024-11-07T14:25:18","modified_gmt":"2024-11-07T12:25:18","slug":"hafsa-from-somalia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaltkinder.org\/en\/cleft-children\/hafsa-from-somalia\/","title":{"rendered":"Hafsa from Somalia"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Hafsa is born with a bilateral cleft lip and a cleft palate<\/a>. A difficult start in life. The Somali girl is not even two years old when her parents bring her to us in April of this year to get treatment for her. Cleft aid missions are hosted regularly at the Somcare Hospital & DCKH Cleft Center<\/strong>, a cleft center in Garowe that we opened in cooperation with Somalia Medical Care e.V. (Somcare) in March 2022. This was also the case in that April: The experienced surgeons Dr. Muhammad Quamruzzaman<\/strong> and Dr. Al Masum Ziaul Haque<\/strong> from our Bangladesh project<\/a> are visiting. They are assisted by the Ethiopian doctors Dr. Samater and Dr. Abdinasir<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this nine-day aid mission, Hafsa will receive her surgery, as will almost 50 other children and youths<\/a> with cleft lip and palate. Dr. Masum closes Hafsa’s bilateral cleft lip<\/strong>. Deutsche Cleft Kinderhilfe<\/strong> places great concern on ensuring that all cleft care in a country is offered locally, by local specialists, so that experience and specialist knowledge can be accumulated in the country and because the language and cultural barriers are lower. But there are few specialists in Somalia. Therefore, our project partners from India<\/a>, Pakistan<\/a> and Bangladesh<\/a> often help out as volunteers in the initial phase of the project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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