Cleft Centres:
1 Ahmedabad
Anand Surgical Hospital, Memco Cross Road, Naroda Road, Naroda, Ahmedabad- 382 345, Gujarat
Project Director: Dr Rishabh Shah
2 Aurangabad
Dahiphale Hospital, No 11, Adalat Road Infront Of District Court, Ashoka Hotel Campus, Kranti Chowk,
Aurangabad 431005, Maharashtra
Project Director: Dr Ujwala V Dahiphale
3 Bhubaneshwar
SSB Hospital, 44, Satya Nagar, Bhubaneshwar 751003, Odisha
Project Director: Dr Nitish Kumar Panda
4 Coorg
Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences, KK Village, Maggula Village, Virajpet - 571 218, Karnataka
5 Cuttack
Heritage Health Care, Chandini Chowk, Cuttack 753002, Odisha
Project Director: Dr Abhitosh Debata
6 Goa
Goa Dental College and Hospital, Bambolim Goa 403202
7 Hyderabad
Ramdev Rao Hospital, H.N.1-6, National Highway, No. 9, Kukatpally, Hyderabad 500072, Telangana
Project Director: Dr C Charan Kumar Reddy
8 Jodhpur
Medipulse Hospital, E4, Mia , Basni Ii Phase,Opposite Aiims Campus, Jodhpur 342005, Rajasthan
Project Director: Dr Raghavendra Kurdekar
9 Kannur
GIMCARE Hospital, Building number 32/1094/1 to 8, NH 66, Chala Bypass, Nadal Tottada (PO),Kannur, Kerala- 670007
Project Director: Dr Shanavas K P
10 Katihar
Radiant Hospital, DS College Rd, Army Colony, Islampur, Katihar - 854105, Bihar
Project Director: Dr Swarnav Patnaik
11 Mangalore
Father Muller Medical College, Fr Muller Road, Kankanady, Mangalore - 575 002, Karnataka
Project Director: Dr Naveen Rao
12 Mangalore
Yenepoya Medical and Dental Hospital, University Road, Deralakatte, Mangalore 575018, Karnataka
Project Director: Dr Hari Kishore Bhat
13 Mangalore
Kanachur Hospital & Research Centre, Mangalore University Road, Natekal, 575 018 Karnataka
Project Director: Dr Mustafa K
14 Patna
Rajeshwar Hospital, Opposite Bahadurpur Petrol Pump, Kankarbagh, Patna-800020, Bihar
Project Director: Dr Umashankar
15 Pandharpur
Navjeevan Children's Hospital, 4647 B, Near Sargam Cinema, Pandharpur-413304. Maharshtra
Project Director: Dr Sagar Satish Jangam
16 Pune
Aditya Birla Hospital, S 31, Aditya Birla Hospital Marg, Chinchwad, Thergaon, Pune 411033
Project Directors: Dr Samrat Sabhlok & Dr Sagar Satish Jangam
17 Raiganj
Mikky Megha Hospital Private Limited, Raiganj Balurghat Road, RH-10, Uttar Dinajpur 733130, West Bengal
Project Director: Dr Swarnav Patnaik
18 Raipur
Jeewan Memorial Hospital, New Shanti Nagar, Raipur - 492001, Chhattisgarh
Project Director: Dr Nirved Jain
19 Surat
K P Sanghvi Hospital, Opposite Ring Road, Sagrampura, Surat-395002, Gujarat
Project Director: Dr Nehal Patel
20 Varanasi
Peace Point Hospital, Brahma Kumari Ln, Jawahar Nagar Colony, Bhelpur, Varanasi 221010, Uttar Pradesh
Project Director: Dr Ravi Kant Singh
21 Visakhapatanam
Durga Hospital, 36-91-108, Beside Sbi, Urvasi Jn., Kancharapalem, N.H.-5, Visakhapatnam 530 008, Andhra Pradesh
Project Director: Dr Sivanagendra Reddy
22 Visakhapatanam
Apollo Hospital, Survey No 68P & 76, Healthcity, Arilova, Chinagadali, Visakhapatnam-530040, Andhra Pradesh
Project Director: Dr Sunita Yelaverthi
Comprehensive Cleft Care Centres:
1 Agra
Pushpanjali Hospital & Research Centre, Pushpanjali Palace, Delhi Gate, Agra 282002, Uttar Pradesh
Project Director: Dr Gaurav Gupta
2 Bangalore
Rangadore Memorial Hospital, 1st Cross, Shankarapuram, Basavanagudi, Bengaluru 560004, Karnataka
Project Director: Dr B S Jayanth
3 Hyderabad
AVR Dentofacial Hospital, 1-7-70/9, Adj. Swati Tiffin Centre, Street No 8, Habsiguda, Hyderabad - 500007, Telangana
Project Director: Dr A Vijay Kumar
4 Kolkata
Shree Jain Hospital and Research Centre, 57A, 493B, Grand Trunk Road, Shibpur, Howrah, South 24 Parganas, Kolkata, 711102,
West Bengal
Project Director: Dr Siddhartha Chatterjee
5 Mysore
St Joseph's Hospital, SH17, Bannimantap, Mysuru 570015, Karnataka
Project Director: Dr Manu Prasad S
6 Nagpur
Nelson Mother and Child Care Hospital, 32 Behind Hitavada Press, Dhantoli, Nagpur 440012, Maharashtra
Project Director: Dr Darshan RewanwarLIST OF FELLOWS
NAME OF THE FELLOW
Dr Nidhi Neha Bora
Dr Sonal Arora
Dr Shreya B Malapur
Dr Arjun Raj
Dr Namitha Mysore Hiriyanna
Dr Wang Khem Nirmala Devi
Dr Kurupati Krishna Lohita
Dr Ansari Fakhruddin
Dr Pramit Mishra
Dr Mubashir Younis
Dr Karthik K P
Dr Abhivyakti Tewari
Dr Aaby Abraham
Dr Vivek Raythaththa
Dr Ujjval Mehrotra
Dr Swetha Kanchanapally
Dr. Amrita Sah
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
April 2022 to March 2023
March 2022 to February 2023
February 2022 to January 2023
February 2022 to January 2023
January 2021 to April 2022
January 2021 to March 2022
January 2021 to December 2021
Janaury 2021 to December 2021
January 2021 to December 2021
January 2020 to December 2020
January 2020 to December 2020
January 2020 to December 2020
January 2020 to December 2020
January 2020 to December 2020
December 2018 to November 2019
November 2018 to October 2019
November 2018 to October 2019
September 2018 to August 2019
August 2018 to August 2019
October 2017 to September 2018
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
Patna
Mysore
Patna
AOMSI
AOMSI
Kolkata
AOMSI
AOMSI
AOMSI
AOMSI
Kolkata
Agra
Hyderabad (AVR)
Patna
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
In the operation theatre, errors are frequent and often consequential. Enhancing operation theatre efficiency ensures patient safety and boosts the confidence of surgeons and the supporting staffs. At ABMSS, we thrive to provide quality treatment to our toddlers affected by a cleft and hence, provide additional support to the cleft centres to enhance the safety inside the operation theatres (OTs).
List of Equipment supported to cleft centres between 2015-2022
| Types of Equipment | Grantee cleft centre/s |
| Anaesthesia workstation | Pushpanjali Hospital-Agra, Uttar Pradesh Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences-Coorg, Karnataka AVR Dentofacial Hospital-Hyderabad Telengana Durga Hospital-Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka Shree Jain Hospital-Kolkata, West Bengal Rajeshwar Hospital-Patna, Bihar |
| DSLR Camera | SSB Hospital- Bhubaneswar, Odisha Jeewan Memorial Hospital-Raipur, Chhatisgarh AVR Dentofacial Hospital-Hyderabad Telengana Navneet Hitech Hospital-Mumbai, Maharashtra St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka Durga Hospital-Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh |
| Operation theatre (OT) light | St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka |
| Karl Storz Instruments | Pan India |
| Intubation fiberscope | Jai Devi Hospital and Research Centre-Agra, Uttar Pradesh Durga Hospital-Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka |
| Speech and Functional therapy Unit | St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka Durga Hospital-Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh |
| CLP Surgical instruments | Pan India |
| Pulsoximetre | Pushpanjali Hospital-Agra, Uttar Pradesh Rangadore Memorial Hospital-Bangalore, Karnataka SSB Hospital-Bhubaneswar, Odisha St Joseph's Hospital-Mysore, Karnataka Coorg Institute of Dental Sciences-Coorg, Karnataka AVR Dentofacial Hospital-Hyderabad Telengana Navneet Hitech Hospital-Mumbai, Maharashtra Shree Jain Hospital-Kolkata, West Bengal Durga Hospital-Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh Rajeshwar Hospital-Patna, Bihar |