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Smile Train India is a part of the world’s largest cleft focussed organisation Smile Train. This NGO not only supports free reconstructive surgeries and associated care for children with clefts, but also provides training, funding, and resources to empower local doctors to provide cleft surgery.

A car ran over Nilanjana Chatterjee’s left leg after she was trying to save a woman from being molested in Kolkata. This is her story.

“The acid burnt my clothes, and it blurred my vision, almost as soon as it came in contact with my skin. The pain that is caused me was like nothing I had ever experienced before.”

In private hospitals, such procedures would cost Rs 1.5-3 lakh. Dr Uday Rana is not only performing them with his own funds, but he has also purchased equipment to reduce the blood loss and pain!

As a routine procedure before the surgery, she had to undergo a coronary angiogram. During the procedure, the catheter inserted into her body broke into three pieces, which were lodged near her three vital arteries, obstructing the blood flow.

Within six months post the surgery, Vijay started feeling an increase in the pain and his limp became more pronounced, with new joints squeaking when he walked.

The Better India talked to Dr Shanthanu Chakravarthy, a doctoral scholar at IISc, who pursued the design, prototyping, control, haptics, and simulation of an endoscopy simulator.

An x-ray revealed a lesion in Noah's neck on his cervical spine, a biopsy caused the doctors to diagnose it as chordoma; one of the rarest tumours ever.

Jeevasarthakathe has been working on the portal for four months, and it is estimated to be launched in two weeks

This procedure required the doctors to extract the big toe and the toe adjacent to it along with the arteries, veins, nerves and tendons to reconstruct a finger and a thumb for Virendra.