7 Kids successfully operated for cleft lip and cleft palate

Tirupati: Seven kids were operated successfully for cleft lip and palate at the TTD-run BIRRD (T) Hospital here today and the Doctors’ team was complimented by the TTD EO AV Dharma Reddy. According to BIRRD Special Officer Dr Reddeppa Reddy, the operations included cleft lip and cleft palate. Among the patients, some are even months old children, who were got admitted on December 5, operated on December 7 and got discharged on December 9 without any complications.
Lohitha 6m/F, Thanvish 9m/M, Nagahema 9m/F, Nagalakshmi 1Y/F, Rekha 2Y/F, Jahnavi 3Y/F, and Naveen 12Y/M underwent surgeries successfully. Dr Preetham Shetty and Dr Deepesh N Rao visiting professors from Bangalore along with the plastic surgeon of the Hospital Dr Jhansi operated the above patients and discharged them on Friday. The programme had taken place in the college on Wednesday evening during the inauguration of a students’ association. After the programme got over, a few students of the college got on to the
dais and danced wearing burqas. The video went viral on social media and heated debates were raging among netizens. Many who responded to the video clip said it was a ‘mockery’ of the dress traditionally worn by Muslim women. The burqa-clad students were allegedly seen dancing to the song ‘Fevicol Se’ from the Hindi movie ‘Dabangg-2’.
“The video clip being circulated in social media has captured a part of the dance by students of the Muslim community itself who barged on stage during the informal part of students’ association inaugural,” it said. “It was not part of the approved programme and the students involved have been suspended pending inquiry. The college does not support or condone any activities that could harm the harmony between communities and everyone on campus knows that strict guidelines that are in place in this regard,” the statement read.