Smile Train India Foundation supporter Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, on birth anniversary of her father Krishnaraj Rai, addressed media and talked to length about the condition of cleft lip and palate.
She announced a campaign for NGO Smile Train India, to create awareness about cleft palate and its surgery. She said that it is very unfortunate that people relate cleft lip with superstition and do not realise that there is a cure.
Aishwarya said, “It’s the right of every human being to be able to smile every waking day of their life. Here in Smile Train, medical facts are shared with people all around the world that, it is possible to correct the cleft palate with surgery,”.
“If a child is born with cleft palate condition… people don’t realise that it has a treatment. We would like to thank the media as they are able to put across our message to every corner of the country,” she said.
She said that it is a rare condition, “One in 700 hundred children are born with clefts in India and Smile Train foundation works in 110 plus cities and 160 plus partner hospitals to treat cleft surgeries so, I would like to thank to all surgeons who are doing this fantastic jobs,”.
Aishwarya was present at the event with her daughter Aaradhya Bachchan.
Aish will be next seen on big screen with his husband Abhishek in ‘Gulab Jamun’. The two will be seen together after ‘Ravan’, which was released 8 years ago.