OPSA Ambassador in BBC Drama Series

OPSA Ambassador, Stephanie Cole will be on the Beeb's UK Drama Series, 'Gentleman Jack'. Gentleman Jack starts tonight, BBC One, 9pm.

Welcome Dinner

Yesterday evening, OPSA met with members of Gujrat Welfare Forum and delegation of Donors from Qatar regarding Cancer Hospital establishment at the Bashir Begum

Winter Newsletter

We have released our Winter Newsletter. Click through to read more

New OPSA Ambassador - Adil Rashid

We are proud to announce English and Yorkshire cricketer, Adil Rashid will be taking on an ambassador’s role at OPSA.

UPDATE: From OPSA Surgeon & Trustee - Muhammad Riaz

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After finishing my full day list in Cleft Hospital, Gujrat, I went to Lahore to join the team of British Breast Surgeons who came to run the Basic Skills Course in Oncoplastic Surgery in Lahore and Islamabad.

I was there to thank them for their time and visit to Pakistan. They have safely returned with the promise to come back for further courses.

Team photo includes:

  • Miss Penelope McManus

  • Mr Steven Thrush

  • Mr Richard Sutton

  • Mr Brandan Smith

  • Mr Muhammad Riaz

Special thanks to Miss Penelope McManus for getting the team together.

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Sponsored Walk with Shahid Tariq

Good Luck Team OPSA!

OPSA surgery team will be travelling to Gujrat, Pakistan for 10 days to operate on children with cleft lip and palate in Cleft Hospital Gujrat and also help with teaching and training in the local community.

Thank you Ariel Bruce

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OPSA would like to thank Ariel Bruce for her contribution to Spring Surgical Camp.

Ariel has sourced a film crew from Goldsmiths, University of London (internationally known for creativity and innovation) to visit Pakistan and record the work of OPSA and PCLAPA (Pakistan Cleft Lip & Palate Association) in a television documentary, which we are very excited about.

The two film-makers have offered to do this for OPSA in their own time, and on a voluntary basis, for which we are extremely grateful.

OPSA scholarship for a senior trainee with the Craniofacial Society and BAPRAS

OPSA is offering a scholarship for a senior trainee. The scholarship will be awarded through the Craniofacial Society of Great Britain and Ireland and BAPRAS

OPSA's Annette Middleton - Nurse Extraordinaire

SHE can’t remember why she wanted to become a nurse. She just knows she never wanted to be anything else.

An hour in Muhammad Riaz's clinic at the Cleft Hospital

There's hardly a free seat in the waiting room. Mothers cradled babies in their arms, fathers try to keep older children

OPSA's Dr Rafique

HE remembers rushing his grandfather to hospital in Pakistan with a broken hip after a slip in the bathroom. Dr Zahid Rafique remembers day was turning to night when the anaesthetist arrived at the bedside.

Dentist Sumeye Ibrahim

DENTIST Sumeya Ibrahim travelled to Pakistan with the OPSA team on its Spring 2017 mission as part of the charity's multi-disciplinary approach to cleft repair.

Dr Rafique to the rescue!

HE needed surgery to correct a cleft lip and palate but, everywhere his mother took him, they were sent away.

Karachi-based Ophth-pharma engaged to supply specialised stitches

A PAKISTANI firm producing high-quality sutures for use in operating theatres is to link up with Opsa's medics to bring economic benefit to the country from the charity's work.

'If you have a dream, you and your friends can make it come true'

'If you have a dream, you and your friends can make it happen'

Family of baby girl born with a cleft lip and palate have travelled 6,000 miles this weekend

The Welsh parents of a baby girl born with a cleft lip and palate have travelled 6,000 miles this weekend to help a family facing an identical ordeal in a country without a national health service.

Grandmother brings newborn baby with cleft condition to Opsa for help

Grandmother rushes eight-day-old baby to Cleft Hospital in Gujrat for help