22 children send to Amritsar for cleft surgery

As many as twenty two children from Doda district have been sent to a hospital in Amritsar for cleft surgery, officials said today.
The Deputy Commissioner (DC) Doda, Mubarak Singh, today flagged off the group of children.
The children with special need (CWSN) are identified through zonal resource persons/cluster resource persons, followed by organisation of health assessment camps in collaboration with health department and a team from ALIMCO, Kanpur, Singh said.
The deserving children are prescribed assistive devices by specialist doctors, which are being arranged by education department from Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Co-operation of Indian (ALIMCO), a government undertaking organisation and under this scheme minor operations, physiotherapy, home based education is also being provided to Children With Special Need (CWSN), he added.