Tao Chao, a 14-year-old girl from northeastern China’s Liaoning province is a cleft lip and cleft palate patient. “This disease made her so self-contemptuous, and we are anxious for her,” said her mother, Gao Xiu’e.
“My classmates always laugh at me and I have no friend,” Tao told China Daily unhappily.
But all these will be changed. Shenyang Sunline plastic & aesthetic hospital cooperated with Chinese Agape Foundation will provide free medical treatment for 150 cleft lip and cleft palate patients like Tao. The cost of this project will be 400,000 yuan ($ 58,800).
“As a specific hospital, it’s our duty to help people who need a hand,” said Shi Lingzhi, president of Sunline.
“To the deformities, what we do will not only change their appearances, but also their fates,” she added.