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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Nick Sommerlad

British charity brings joy to hundreds of Bangladeshi babies born with a cleft

Smiling baby Adika can’t see what we can. She grins delightedly as British doctors in a Dhaka hospital examine the cleft lip and palate she was born with.

If left untreated it would cause her major problems, affecting not just her appearance but her speech, her eating, her teeth and even her hearing.

Every year, around 200,000 babies will be born globally with cleft lips or palates.

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