Lives affected

Strength to stand on his own – Sunil Pawar A 10-year-old boy, Sunil Pawar, was brought to the medical camp at our project site by his relatives in December 2018. Dr. Daniel Olsen, one of the members of the NSU, Florida, USA, medical team, attended Sunil. He had an advanced form of gangrene in his […]

Urmilaben first visited the Dental Clinic in 2016 as a 47-year-old woman who had lost all her teeth due to lack of proper dental hygiene. At the time, she could not eat any solid foods or speak properly because of her condition. As a last resort to improve her quality of life, Urmilaben came to the clinic to seek proper treatment and find a solution to her problem.

Maitry is a young girl from Ahwa, Dang, Gujarat, India. She was born with a severe hearing disability and as a result, never learned to speak. Her parents came to know about her disability soon after her first birthday. After many visits to several local doctors, Maitry was referred for an audiogram in a faraway city. The audiogram revealed that she had permanent bilateral hearing loss.

Kapila is a young girl who lives in one of the tribal villages of the Dang district. Our first encounter with Kapila was when she attended the medical camp with a social worker in February 2016 at the project site. She presented with a large cleft in the soft palate. Because of this condition, she was not able to speak clearly and was quite depressed and concerned.

Sunil, an 18-year-old boy, visited the medical camp organized at Vanbandhu Arogya Dham during December 15-20, 2016. He lives in a small remote village of Umarkui in Vansda province of Valsad District, about 56 kilometers, from our project site in Ahwa, Dang. Sunil and a social worker came looking for some help as the boy had not been able to open his mouth very much. He fell from a tree when he was 6 years old and hit his chin pretty hard.

Upon clinical examination, Sunil presented with Trismus, inability to open the mouth, with only a maximum mouth opening of 4mm and an underdeveloped chin. Necessary information about Sunil’s condition was provided to the social worker by Dr. Ashok Patel and the need for corrective surgery was stressed.