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自2004年以來，Subodh
Kumar Singh醫生進行了超過12,000出生就缺陷的唇顎裂手術。他最有名的一個病人，Pinki
Sonkar，是紀錄片微笑Pinki的主角，該片在2009年贏得了奧斯卡獎最佳紀錄短片。這39分鐘的影片的由Megan
Mylan公司所執導。
Dr. Subodh Kumar Singh has performed
more than 12,000 surgeries to correct
cleft lip and palate birth defects since
2004. One of his most celebrated
patients, Pinki Sonkar, was the subject
of the documentary
Smile Pinki
, which won an Academy
Award for best documentary short in
2009. The 39-minute film was directed by
Megan Mylan.
Singh是印度北方邦Varanasi
Midtown扶輪社的社員，並且是1996年至1997年到巴西的團體研究交換團團員，當他修整Pinki的唇裂時，她才五歲。她的家人通過”微笑列車”，不需負擔該手術250美元的費用，”微笑列車”是一個國際慈善機構，提供唇顎裂的兒童免費手術並培訓唇顎裂治療的醫生。
Singh, a member of the Rotary Club of
Varanasi Midtown, Uttar Pradesh, India,
and of a 1996-97 Group Study Exchange
team to Brazil, repaired Pinki’s cleft
lip when she was five years old. The
US$250 surgery was available at no cost
to her family through
Smile Train
, a n international charity
that provides cleft lip and palate
surgery to children in need and
cleft-related training to doctors.
在她動手術前，Pinki無法上學，因為其他小孩會虐待她。
Before she received the surgery, Pinki
was unable to attend school due to
mistreatment from other children.
“在印度，唇顎裂兒童的生活很可憐，“Singh說。“他們成長過程沒受教育，與世隔絕，並且沒有任何朋友。“除了講話異常，他說，由於童年早期餵養困難和其他因素，未修復的唇齶裂兒童平均預期壽命比其他兒童少了15年。
“The life of a cleft child in India is
really miserable,” says Singh. “They
grow up uneducated, and they are
secluded and don’t have any friends.” In
addition to speech abnormalities, he
says, children with unrepaired clefts
have an average life expectancy 15 years
shorter than other children, due to
feeding difficulties in early childhood
and other factors.
在影片中，經過45分鐘的手術，五天留在醫院，Pinki和她的父親回家時，她的母親，看到女兒的美麗的臉，開心的大叫出來。
In the film, after the 45-minute surgery
and a five-day stay in the hospital,
Pinki and her father return home to her
mother, who cries with joy at the sight
of her daughter’s beautiful face.
在影片的最後畫面，Pinki與朋友笑著，而辛格另外一個病人，11歲的Ghutaru
Chauhan與同學打著板球。根據微笑列車機構，目前這兩個孩子都在學校就讀，而且學習優異。
In the film’s final scenes, Pinki laughs
with friends, and another of Singh’s
patients, 11-year-old Ghutaru Chauhan,
plays cricket with classmates. Both
children, according to Smile Train, are
attending school and excelling in their
studies.
根據該組織的資料，世界各地的扶輪社，直接資助了超過200個的兒童經由微笑列車進行唇顎裂手術。2007年，扶輪基金會的15756美元配合獎助金計劃，由Varanasi
Midtown扶輪社與澳洲維多利亞Mansfield扶輪社贊助，提供醫療及手術設備的醫院，在那裡Singh的團隊已經進行了超過18,000手術。
Rotary clubs worldwide have directly
funded more than 200 cleft lip and
palate surgeries for children through
Smile Train, according to the
organization. In 2007, a $15,756 Rotary
Foundation Matching Grant project,
sponsored by the Varanasi Midtown club
and the Rotary Club of Mansfield,
Victoria, Australia, supplied medical
and surgical equipment to the hospital
in Varanasi where Singh’s team has
performed more than 18,000 procedures.
“我已經看到了為數甚多的患者手術後的生活發生了變化，“Singh說。“由於微笑列車，他們已重拾信心。“
“I’ve seen a large number of patients
whose lives have been transformed after
the surgery,”says Singh. “Through Smile
Train, they have regained their
confidence.”
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