Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital: Cleft Lip and Palate Clinic

The clinic is the only one of its kind in South Africa that meets the World Health Organisation requirements in relation to the services it offers.

The services include:

• emotional support
• and professional advice
• Neonatal nursing,
• Surgery
• Orthodontic/orthopedic treatment
• Speech and language therapy
• Ear, nose and throat care
• Clinical genetics
• dental care
• and a neonatal register.

A multidisciplinary team of specialists provides the care in this clinic and members of the team have special training in cleft care.

A Brief History of the Clinic:
The clinic was founded by a plastic surgeon David Davies and a speech therapist Dianna Whiting in 1958 and they led the clinic for 21 and 25 years respectively. The clinic has for the past 55 years, helped a lot of patients from across South Africa by offering a world class quality health care.