Depilex Smile Again Foundation is the first of it’s kind in Pakistan that provides surgeries to acid-attack victims..
Since the foundation has been established, a team of Italian doctors visits Pakistan after every three months and provide a complete plastic surgery treatment to the victims. This team is helped by the Civil Military Hospital (CMH), the Shalimar Hospital, Jinnah Hospital, the National Defence Hospital and the Fatima Memorial Trust Hospital, five of Lahore’s leading hospitals.
Depilex-Smile Again foundation not only provides reconstructive surgery but also psychological/psychiatric treatment, shelters and rehabilitation centers for the survivors. The foundation also give them vocational training like embroidery, sewing etc. The plastic surgeons of Italy and France suggest after visiting the Smile Again Family Health Hospital and Vocational Training Centers in January 2007 that eight burn survivors will visit Italy annually to attend vocational training programs for three months.
According to theHuman Rights Commission of Pakistan, in 2007 at least 33 women were burned in acid attacks, and 45 were set on fire. But the statistics are not completed because mostly of people didn’t register cases out of fear.