Cleft is treatable, not curse

The Deputy Minister of Health, Dr Grace Ayensu-Danquah, has indicated that cleft palate, a aesculapian information among children, is treatable and not a curse.

“We person the needed expertise to dainty it and what we request is aboriginal detection and aboriginal referral systems truthful that nary kid is near successful the shadows, particularly children successful hard-to-reach communities”, she stressed.

She said the imaginativeness of the ministry was to guarantee that each kid calved with a cleft lip, careless of their location, receives implicit and high-quality care.

Conference

Dr Ayensu-Danquah made the remarks portion addressing the 2nd yearly league of the Ghana Association for Cleft Lip and Palate (GHACLIP) successful Kumasi successful the Ashanti Region.

Cleft articulator and cleft palate are separations successful the precocious articulator and rima that hap portion a fetus develops successful the uterus. Treating cleft articulator and palate involves country and whitethorn see code therapy and dental work.

It was connected the theme: “Achieving excellence successful broad cleft attraction successful Ghana done effectual collaboration and partnership”.

“We privation a Ghana wherever each kid calved with cleft is treated and grows to execute his oregon her aspirations with nary obstruction to their imaginable different than their ain ambitions” she pointed out.

Data

She underscored the request for a robust nationalist cleft information and registry to service arsenic a usher successful the proviso of the needed attraction to children calved with cleft, saying “we cannot negociate what we bash not measure”.

“We request to cognize wherever children with cleft are born, however they are being followed up and monitored, arsenic good arsenic what the gaps successful the systems are to assistance successful the proviso of the required attraction and support”, she stated.

Dr Ayensu-Danquah, who is besides the Member of Parliament for Essikado Ketan, called for the decentralisation of expertise successful cleft treatment, coupled with a determination beyond the ngo exemplary wherever cleft attraction was lone disposable during definite weeks oregon months of the year.

Gratitude

The President of Pan African Association of Cleft Lip and Palate (PAACLIP), Professor Adeola A. Olusanya, expressed gratitude to GHACLIP for their dedication and committedness to cleft care. Emphasising that GHACLIP stands arsenic a beacon of anticipation and excellence connected the continent.

She indicated that the travel of broad cleft wellness attraction was complex, coupled with challenges related to resources, infrastructure and geographical entree and further besides touted GHACLIP’s capableness building; grooming the adjacent procreation of surgeons, nurses, and code therapists, among others.

The Interim President, GHACLIP, Dr Solomon Obiri Yeboah, said arsenic cleft professionals, they strive to supply the highest modular of attraction to children calved with cleft articulator and palate successful their respective hospitals and centres.

Writer’s email:gilbert.agbey@graphic.com.gh