The Nadjmi Charity Foundation from Belgium is set to change facial deformities into beautiful smiles in Zahedan, I.R. of Iran
A Memorandum of Understanding will be signed with Zahedan University of Medical Sciences for establishing a center of excellence for the cleft care at the Ali-Ibn-Abitaleb (PBUH) Hospital, Zahedan, which is planned to be a sub-specialized center for the treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate in Sistan and Balouchetsan Province.
Report from: Zahedan University of Medical Sciences, International Affairs Office
Published on: 31 October 2022
Najmi Charity Foundation is an independent charitable foundation which has public interest status, with more than 20 year of charity work in Africa, India and south East Asia, and Iran. Its mission is to provide free-of-charge surgery services to children with cleft deformity (cleft lip and cleft palate) and to enhance local capacities via training local surgeons in providing pediatric surgery services and promoting clef care relate research.
Dr. Nasser Nadjmi, is a subspecialist of the plastic and reconstructive burn surgery and Director of the team for Cleft and Craniofacial Anomalies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, and founder of the Najmi Charity Foundation. In January 2000 he joined the Craniofacial Association in Antwerp, Belgium. In the same year he founded the Cleft team at the University of Antwerp (UA). Since May 2010 he has become the coordinating program director for Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery through the UA.
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During a recent visit to Zahedan, Iran, Dr Nadjmi said: A Memorandum of Understanding will be signed with Zahedan University of Medical Sciences for establishing a center of excellence for the cleft care at the Ali-Ibn-Abitaleb (PBUH) Hospital, Zahedan, which is planned to be a sub-specialized center for the treatment of cleft lip and cleft palate in Sistan and Balouchetsan Province.
He continued: We hope that by removing the legal obstacles and building this center, this center will become a refuge for all those suffering from congenital anomalies, especially patients with cleft palate and cleft lip problems.
In addition to therapeutic activities, educational and research activities will also be carried out in this center in order to meet the long-term essential needs of the patients of the province and the country.
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