Dr. SHYAM sheth
Cleft Center: Ahmedabad (Gujarat) Mob No. 9825077232
Project Location: Thakershy Charitable Hospital Near Omiya Vijay Bus stand Shivranjani Crossroad Satellite, Ahmedabad - 380 015
DR. JAYANTH B.S.
Cleft Center: Bangalore (Karnataka) Mob No. 9632519000
Project Location: Rangadore Memorial Hospital 1st Cross, Shankarapuram, Basavanagudi Bengaluru, Karnataka-560004
DR. PRAMOD SHARMA
Cleft Center: Bhopal (M.P.) Mob No. 9826351967
Project Location: Chirayu Medical College & Hospital Bhainsakhedi, Near Bairagarh, Bhopal-Indore Highway, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh 462030
Dr. STHITAPRAJNA LENKA
Cleft Center: Bhubaneswar, Odisha Mob No.933555777
Project Location: SSB Hospital 44, Satya Nagar Bhubaneshwar 751003 Odisha
dr. jayanth b.s.
Cleft Center: Coorg (Karnataka) Mob No. 9632519000
Project Location: Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, KK Village, Maggula Village Virajpet - 571 218, South Coorg, Karnataka
Dr. aNSHUL SINGHAL
Cleft Center: Delhi-Noida (U.P.) Mob No. 9310309090
Project Location: Kailash Healthcare LtdKailasgh HospitalH-33, H Block, Sector 27Noida, Uttar Pradesh 201301
Dr. rakshit khandeparker
Cleft Center: GoaMob No. 9960202401
Project Location: Goa Dental College and HospitalBambolim Goa-403202
dr. a. vijay Kumar
Cleft Center: Hyderabad (Telengana) Mob No. 9885549009
Project Location: AVR Dentofacial Hospital 1-7-70/9, Adj. Swati Tiffin Centre Street No 8, Habsiguda Hyderabad - 500007
Dr. Arjun Malhotra
Cleft Center: Jammu (J&K)Mob No. 9717085858
Project Location: Sri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital Kakryal, (Vill & Post) Katra, Tehsil-Reasi, District-Katra, Jammu and Kashmir 182320
Cleft Center: Kolkata (West Bengal) Mob No. 9874545325
Project Location: Shree Jain Hospital & Research Centre 57A, 493B, Grand Trunk Road, Shibpur, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata 711102, West Bengal
DR. NAVEEN RAO
Cleft Center: Mangalore (Karnataka) Mob No. 9845008355
Project Location: Father Muller Medical College, Fr Muller Road, Kankanady, Mangalore - 575 002, Karnataka
Dr. NISHEET AGNI
Cleft Center: Mumbai (Maharashtra) Mob No. 9702014422
Project Locations: Navneet Hitech Hospital LT Rd, Dahisar East, Mumbai Maharashtra 400068,
Satelite centre: B.K.L Walawalkar Hospital Diagnostic & Research Centre Shreekshetra Dervan, Tal.-Chiplun Dist, Ratnagiri, Maharashtra 415606
DR. RANGNATH JHAWAR
Cleft Center: Mumbai (Maharashtra) Mob No. 9886815407
Project Location: Dr D Y Patil Vidyanagar, Sector 5, Nerul, Navi Mumbai, Maharashtra 400706
Dr. manu prasad s
Cleft Center: Mysore, KarnatakaMob No. 9886701781
Project Location: St Joseph's Hospital, SH17, Bannimantap, Mysuru, Karnataka-570015
Dr. uma shankar
Cleft Center: Patna (Bihar) Mob No. 9431254187
Project Location: Rajeswar Hospital, Opposite Bahadurpur Petrol Pump, Kankarbagh, Patna, Bihar-800020
Cleft Center: Pune (Maharashtra)Mob No. 8303059830
Project Location: Saishree Hospital, 251/252, Opp. Telephone Exchange, Near Parihar Chowk, Aundh, Pune, Maharashtra-411007
DR. PUSHKAR WAKNIS
Cleft Center: Pune (Maharashtra) Mob No. 9823047888
Project Location: Vishwaraj Hospital Solapur Road, Rajbaug, Loni Kalbhor, Pune, Maharashtra 412201
Dr. Nirved jain
Cleft Center: Raipur (Chhatisgarh) Mob No. 9827106414
Project Location: Jeewan Memorial Hospital, New Shanti Nagar, Raipur, Chhatisgarh-492001
Dr. nehal patel
Cleft Center: Surat (Gujarat)Mob No. 9376661819
Project Location: K.P. Sanghvi Hospital, Behind Centre Point, Opposite Ring Road, Sagrampura, Surat, Gujarat-395002
Dr. sivanagendra reddy
Cleft Center: Visakhapatnam (A.P.) Mob No. 8019998999
Project Location: Durga Hospital, 36-91-108, Beside SBI, Urvasi Jn., Kancharapalem, N.H.-5, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh-530008
Dr.SUNITA G YELAVERTHI
Cleft Center: Visakhapatnam (A.P.) Mob No. 9949866411
Project Location: Apollo Hospital, Survey No 68P & 76, Healthcity, Arilova,Chinagadali, Visakhapatnam-530040, Andhra Pradesh
JSPL Foundation
Cleft Center: Raigarh (Chhatisgarh)Mob No. 8019998999
Project Location: Fortis O.P.Jindal Hospital and Research Centre Kharasia Road, Raigarh, Chhatisgarh
(Project concluded in 2016)
Dr.C.CHARAN Kumar Reddy
Cleft Center: Hyderabad (Telegana)Mob No. 9985404647
Project Location: H.N.1-6, National Highway No. 9, Kukatpally, Hyderabad, Telangana 500072
Dr. Ravi Kant Singh
Cleft Center: Varanasi (ttar PradeshMob No. 8808888872
Project Location: New City Hospital and Nursing Home, Hazratbal near Kashmir University, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir-190006
Dr. mohammed shakeel
Cleft Center: Srinagar(J&K)Mob No. 9419415528
Project Location: New City Hospital and Nursing Home, Hazratbal near Kashmir University, Srinagar, Jammu and Kashmir-190006 (Project concluded in August 2015)
LIST OF FELLOWS
NAME OF THE FELLOW
Dr. Debolina Pramanik
Dr. Harish K
Dr. Prithvi S Bachalli
Dr. Shreyas Orvakonde
Dr. Kamran Tahir Khan
Dr. Charan Kumar Reddy
Dr. Arvind Nair
Dr. Laiphrakpam Girindra Singh
Dr. Anushree N
Dr. Akshatha Rao
Dr. Amit Adimane
Dr. B.E. Varun Kumar
Dr. Pankaj Kumar Panda
Dr. G. Sridhar
TENURE OF fELLOWSHIP
September 2018 to August 2019
August 2018 to August 2019
October 2017 to (ongoing)
February 2017 to January 2018
May 2016 to April 2017
September 2015 to May 2017
August 2015 to July 2016
July 2015 to June 2016
July 2015 to June 2016
September 2014 to August 2015
June 2014 to October 2014
April 2013 to May 2014
December 2012 to August 2014
April 2011 to June 2012
cleft centre
Kolkata
Mysore
Bangalore
Mysore
Hyderabad
Visakhapatnam
Mysore
Coorg
Mysore
Coorg
Mysore
Visakhapatnam
Bhubaneswar
Visakhapatnam
TESTIMONIALS
I would like to thank the Wolfgang-Müller- Osten Stiftung and ABMSS for providing me the the platform to better understand the aspect of cleft care and to hone my surgical skills.
DR. SHREYAS ORVAKONDE, Fellow, Mysore
I wish from my heart that the programme will facilitate the training of many more junior surgeons. We serve as multipliers and are the future of the Indian health systems.
DR. CHARAN REDDY, Fellow, Vishakhapatnam
OUTREACH AND AWARENESS GENERATION
Search and awareness camp for identifying cleft patients
To maximize the positive impact we have in the lives of the cleft children, ABMSS strives to create knowledge and acceptance among general public.. For this reason, we conduct cleft awareness camps in the rural pockets as well as in urban slums of India.
Our dedicated Project animators go village to village, meet with the Anganwadi workers, ASHA Health workers, conduct awareness programmes in schools, public places to educate people about the cleft condition and tell them about our free cleft surgery services.
SPEECH THERAPY
speech therapy
A Speech Pathologist plays an active role in assessing and treating the children with cleft lip and palate from the time they enter the centre. The children are assessed by the speech pathologist in the aspects of oral examination by which we can make out the movements of lips, tongue, velo pharynx before the surgery and encourage the child to do normal movements by discouraging the self adaptive mechanism which might hinder the speech/voice clarity in the future.
This assessment session also helps the children and the therapist to build up the rapport between each other, even after the surgery the child will allow the therapist to touch since they experienced a regular play therapy session. The adults are also assessed with their oral movements before surgery and given instruction on to how the result of surgery going to be and given demonstration of exercises to be followed after the surgery.
Since the follow up’s of the patients to the centre after the surgery is a big problem this pre assessment and treatment demonstration will help the patient to understand the importance of speech therapy exercises, speech clarity after the surgery will be better if they start following the exercises within 10 days after surgery.
SPEECH AND MYO-FUNCTIONAL THERAPY
Children and adults with cleft lip and palate are observed to have problems with their body posture also which is hindering their improvement indirectly. For example: A child suffering from cleft lip and palate might bend the spine while sitting which will reduce his breathing capacity and in turn oral resonance, leading to nasal voice. To treat these kind of postural problems we trained few speech therapists. In a new approach called myo-functional therapy and K.O.S.T in Germany and Switzerland.
Myo-functional therapy is a kind of muscle trainer which will help the patients attain their normal muscle tonicity and organ function to its best. We are trained to use gadgets like face formers, ballo-vents, and tongue-trainers to improve the breath, lip closure and tongue strengthening. There exercises can be used on children and adults as soon as they are identified. Complete body correction help the patients to gain their confidence in achieving maximum results possible. For example, they don’t need to get used to bending the body inward’s or hiding the face towards the cleft side.
INTENSIVE SPEECH THERAPY
We always believed in Speech therapy and encouraged the professionals by giving them free hand. We also succeeded in solving the problem of ‘follow up speech therapy sessions ‘. We are proud to state that we have kick started a programme called ‘Intensive Speech Therapy’ in which around 10 patients are selected as a batch per month and given admission as an ‘in patient’ for 10 days and provided with food for patient and the attenders free of cost. These 10 days the speech therapist will assess the child’s improvement regularly and update the necessary changes in the treatment. Within these 10 days we record the pre therapy speech or voice sample and post therapy sample. These samples will help patient’s gain confidence and understand the importance of speech therapy.
The greatest achievement is the patients showing interest to join intensive speech therapy programme. The ‘Intensive speech therapy’ project could get started in all the branches very fast all over INDIA. We sincerely thank our team and sponsors for treating the needed people by utilizing the speech therapy facilities.
NUTRITION
NUTRITION AND VITAMIN DEFICIENCY
As a supplement to our cleft program, vitamin supplement program has been added as it is believed that lack of folic acid in pregnant mothers is one of the causes of cleft. Hence, we try to solve this by supporting some young women with vitamin and mineral supplements. Stunting is an internationally accepted indicator to denote the nutritional status of a geography. Recent evidence clearly suggests that stunting takes place in the first two years of a child’s birth. It is irreversible.
Pilot Project: A pilot project was undertaken under the support of Robert Bosch Stiftung and Deutsche Cleft Kinderhilfe e.V. to support a few young women in the Andhra Pradesh region surrounding Visakhapatnam. The right nutrition during this 2 year period can have a profound impact on a child’s brain development, immune system, ability to grow, learn, and rise out of poverty. It can also shape a society’s prosperity.
EQUIPMENT GRANTS
| Types of equipment | Grantee cleft centre/s | Year of support |
| DSLR Camera | BBSR, Raipur and Hyderabad | 2018 |
| Operation theatre (OT) light | Mysore | 2018 |
| DSLR Camera | Mumbai(Dr. Nisheet) | 2017 |
| Karl Storz Instruments | PAN India | 2017 |
| GE Anaesthesia workstation | Agra, Coorg and Hyderabad | 2017 |
| Karl storz intubation fiberscope | Agra and Visakhapatnam (Dr. Siva) | 2016 |
| Speech and Functional therapy set up | Mysore and Visakhapatnam (Dr. Siva) | 2015 |
| DSLR Camera | Mysore and Visakhapatnam (Dr. Siva) | 2015 |
| Karl Storz Instruments | Srinagar | 2015 |
| CLP Surgical instruments | Bhubaneswar | 2015 |
| Anaesthesia workstation (partial support) | Mysore | 2015 |