15k cleft surgeries needed every year in Pakistan.

KARACHI -- Around 15,000 cleft lip and cleft palate surgeries were required in Pakistan every year because approximately 10,000 children were born with cleft lips or cleft palates.

This was informed by Vice Chancellor, Dow University of Health Sciences, Prof. Muhammad Saeed Quraishy while speaking at the launch of Dr. Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz's book "Surgical Atlas of Cleft Palate and Palatal Fistulae" here, said DUHS release on Thursday.

DUHS Vince Chancellor mentioned that there was hole in the palate, some people had both problems at the same time. The amount of work that has been done on palatal Fistulae surgery in Pakistan had not been done anywhere in the world. That was why, the first book on palatal Fistulae surgery had been published by the Pakistani surgeon.

" Our pride in this is that the author is a Dow trained surgeon," he added.

Prominent philanthropist Haji Hanif Tayyab, Prof. Shaista Effendi, Prof. Shahab Afzal Baig, Dr. Tahir Sheikh, Dr. Mazhar Nizam, Dr. Fazal and Dr. Ashraf Ganatra also attended the ceremony.

Prof. Muhammad Saeed Quraishy said that Dr. Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz have chosen a very difficult subject. It was not an easy task to this book. Dr. Fayyaz had made big contribution in the field of plastic surgery. He said that the publication of this book also meant that Dr. Ghulam Qadir Fayyaz had more devotion and commitment to the plastic surgery and cleft palate...