Our Indian partner ABMSS provides free cleft treatment at around [26] partner hospitals across [15] Indian states. Every year around 3,500 children and young people were treated.
A child born with a cleft in India often waits years for surgery, or never receives it. Families in rural and tribal areas rarely live within reach of a hospital that can treat a cleft, and almost never within reach of one that can also provide the speech therapy, orthodontics and follow-up care a child needs afterwards. These centres provide all of it, free of charge, from the first operation through to adulthood.
Growing this work depends on steady, long-term funding.
Our partner in India is Akila Bharatha Mahila Seva Samaja (ABMSS), a registered non-profit society based in Bengaluru and one of India's leading cleft care organisations. It is led by Dr Dushyant Prasad, Executive Director under the direction of a seven member governing council.
ABMSS runs the programme as a national network. It selects and accredits partner hospitals, sets and monitors clinical standards, finds patients through community outreach and India's national child health programmes, provides treatment by empanelled plastic and maxillofacial surgeons and documents and verifies every treatment.
ABMSS is registered under India's Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act to receive foreign donations. ABMSS is supported by various companies in India under corporate social responsibility.
Smile Hub
1 AGRA Galaxy Hospital
2 BENGALURU I Rangadore Memorial Hospital
3 DELHI Shanti Mukand Hospital
4 KOLKATA I Narayana Superspecialty Hospital
5 PUNE I Aditya Birla Hospital
Smile Partner
6 AURANGABAD Dahiphale Hospital
7 BENGALURU II Sri Krishna Seva Shrama Hospital
8 BENGALURU III Ramaiah Medical College Hospitals
9 CHENNAI Sri Ramachandra Institute of Higher Education & Research
10 CUTTACK Shanti Memorial Hospital
11 HYDERABAD AVR Dentofacial Hospital
12 JAIPUR Neo Clinic Children Hospital
13 JODHPUR Medipulse Hospital
14 MYSURU I St Joseph's Hospital
15 MYSURU II JSS Dental College and Hospital
16 NAGPUR Nelson Mother & Child Care Hospital
17 PATNA I Atlantis Super Specialty Hospital
18 PATNA II Rajeshwar Hospital
19 SURAT K.P.Sanghvi Hospital
20 VARANASI Peace Point Hospital
Smile Reach
21 GOA Goa Dental College and Hospital
22 KATIHAR Radiant Hospital
Smile Pod
23 INDORE Coral Hospital & Research Centre
24 PANDHARPUR Navjeevan Children's Hospital
25 RAIPUR Jeewan Memorial Hospital
26 VISAKHAPATNAM Apollo Hospital
Deutsche Cleft Kinderhilfe e.V. was founded in the autumn of 2002. Its goal is to help children with cleft lip and palate from all over the world to receive comprehensive treatment.
