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We held another Conference, a truly international affair with speakers from New Zealand – Les Snape and Dr Ruth Spearing, India – Dr Jayanth Kesave, UK – Drs Sunil Sah, Abdul Ahmed, Abdul Delagous and Sami Farouk and Mark Shaw, a former RAMC Medic now working with UK-MED, Darren Netherwood, Sunil’s friend and construction advisor.

We have had monthly webinars on diverse subjects ranging from head and neck oncology, temporomandibular joint problems and orthognathic surgery. So far, we have been very fortunate to have had distinguished speakers from the UK, Spain, Germany, New Zealand and India and audiences from almost every corner of the world as well as our trainees

As construction of the centre was nearing completion, India and Nepal were badly affected with the deadly second wave of COVID-19. Sadly, the Provincial government in this part of the world, as elsewhere in Nepal, was not prepared for the calamity and many lost their loved ones. People were even struggling to get a bed

Thanks to the magnificent donation from Book Aid International, we have continued to build a major resource not only for the Craniofacial Centre but also for the medical community in Janakpur. We have received over 30 boxes of new edition books related to Maxillofacial surgery, plastic surgery, Orthopaedics and trauma surgery, acute medicine care and

The Craniofacial Centre was inspired by Sunil Sah who had returned from the UK for his summer holiday. It was built in the summer of 2017 by him and a group of local doctors and dentists, who like so many from Janakpur, had left to build their lives elsewhere in Nepal due to the very

Santoshi Saville, a baby was born with severe craniofacial deformity, amniotic band syndrome. She had been deposited in a dustbin at village in the Provincial 2 a day or two after birth by her trouble parent at the beginning of 2022. She was taken into the hospital where they cared for her prior to being

Craniofacial Centre was hugely indebted to Intouch Global Foundation for the very generous funding for our new ambulance. It has proved a great boon to our outreach health programmes, as well as being a very effective way of advertising our facility Our support funding from Intouch Global Foundation has now come to an end. We

A new Cone beam CT scanner, FONA XPAN 3D, has been donated by Future Faces, made possible with a magnificent donation from Mrs Danuta Saville, to whom we are enormously grateful. It will be the first in the Province 2. At the end of 2022, this machine arrived in the Centre, ready to be installed

As an addition to the outreach camps, we also conducted school screening programs in the schools in the Jankapurdham area. Through this we aim to screen children for any craniofacial anomalies at a very young age so that they get the much needed attention as soon as possible.

The camps are now on a regular and firm footing, covering the entire province. On each, a surgeon, a dentist, a nurse and our liaison officer /social worker spend a day, or if they are at a greater distance from Janakpur, two days, working. With the assistance of our very able manager, Saurav Thakur, we