OUR MISSION....
...to provide timely, comprehensive, compassionate medical, dental and surgical care for all children with either cleft lip, cleft palate or cleft lip and cleft palate in Lombok Province.
The center provides intergral and high standard care and support to all patients and their families, so they can live their lives and be productive members of society to the fullest of their abilities, without the burden of being born with cleft palate or lip.
The delivered care will be coordinated between all Indonesian health care workers and foreign volunteers. Medical care will involve genetics assessment, follow-up of speech development, and the psychological health of each child. Dental care will involve all aspects of oral health, orthodontic care before and after bone grafting, and any pre-surgical orthodontic care prior to Orthognathic surgery. Surgical care will involve repair of the cleft lip and palate, appropriate placement and follow-up of myringotomy (ear) tubes; bone grafting of the alveolar cleft, repair of palate fistulas and surgical correction of speech abnormalities, and Orthognathic surgery. The care we deliver will be multi-disciplinary, and will involve the specialties of Speech, Psychology, Genetics, Pediatric Dentistry, Orthodontics, Prosthodontics, Oral Maxillofacial, Otolaryngology, Plastic Surgery, Neurosurgery, Pediatric Surgery, Surgery, Business Leaders, and Health Administrators. Communication between these specialties will be expected and encouraged. We will attempt to provide cleft care that will be a model for health care in Lombok.
This mission statement is adapted from that by the Palestinian Cleft Society.
If the indonesean staff and health authorities do seek our help, we intend to help combining our center with with eye care, such a combination as has been developed in Bali by the Balieye Organisation.
We seek to exchange our experiences with other organisations and societies all over the world, especially:
The Craniofacial Institute, Hyderabad, India;
The Palestinian Cleft Society, West Bank and in Gaza;
The Balieye Organisation, Bali, Indonesia,
SmileTrain, U.S.A.;
The Schisis Teams of the Netherlands;
The schisis team of Leuven, Belgium;
And many centers from all over the world.
See The Address by the Governor of Lombok mr. .... and by the President of CLAPCIL mrs. Lily Heyder.,