These are images of a young patient, Noman Ahmed with this congenital condition who Mr Riaz operated on for ptosis (drooping eyelid, which the patient had no control over).

Before and after pictures in case of congenital ptosis performed during camp in March 2022.

Mr Riaz is preparing for his next trip to Gujrat, Pakistan, in a few days’ time. This will be the first of the bi-annual trips for 2018.

As we fast approach OPSA's next cleft lip and palate surgery mission, we wanted to find out what it's like to spend an hour in surgery with Mr Riaz, so here goes...

Mr Riaz is delighted to have been selected to serve on the BFIRST committee for a tenure of 3 years, commencing 1st July 2017.

Mr Riaz and the UK team have just returned from another successful free surgery cleft camp at the purpose-built Cleft Hospital in Gujrat Pakistan.

Both girls were born with cleft lips and palates, caused when the roof of the mouth and the lips fail to fuse together properly in the womb, causing disfigurement, speech problems and often malnutrition because children with the condition struggle to feed properly.

The Welsh parents of a baby girl born with a cleft lip and palate have travelled 6,000 miles this weekend to help a family facing an identical ordeal in a country without a national health service.

Bushra, 15, spends her days cleaning the house and doing chores for her mother. She hides herself away from a world that only sees her disfigurement.

There's hardly a free seat in the waiting room. Mothers cradled babies in their arms, fathers try to keep older children entertained and teenagers wait for their names to be called.

Noorina Rahman, 40, has given birth to 14 children. Her daughter Sajida, now eight, and son Bahzara, six, were both born with cleft lips and palates.

IT is not yet midday and, already, the temperature is marching past 30 degrees outside Sialkot Airport, opened 10 years to the relief of travellers spared the gridlock of Islamabad or Lahore, traffic jostles for position.

A young man has helped 10 children with cleft lip and palates undergo treatment in Pakistan after his face was transformed by a Hull surgeon. Jack Smith, 21, underwent five operations on the NHS after he was born with a cleft lip and palate.

During a recent trip to Multan, Pakistan (December 2016) Mr Riaz, on behalf of OPSA of which he is a trustee, was delighted to be able to hand over a Doppler Machine to the Burns Unit in Multan, Pakistan.

During his trip to Multan, Pakistan in December 2016, Mr Riaz was honoured to be invited to open the newly established Seminar/Conference Room and Medical Library at the Burns & Plastic Surgery Unit situated at the Nishtar Medical College and Hospital in Multan. 

We have just returned from Gujrat in Pakistan for the 2nd of our bi-annual trips to undertake cleft lip and palate surgery for underprivileged and impoverished children.

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Mr Riaz and the OPSA team handing over the "Versa Jet" to Dr Naheed Ahmed Chaudhry, head of Burns Unit in Multan, Pakistan for the treatment of burn patients on 1 March 2016.

Regarded as one of the UK's finest plastic surgeons, Mr Riaz helps patients in Hull with a range of severe health problems.

Presented 'Gujrat' Cleft Nose correction technique at University of Health  Sciences, Lahore , Pakistan during an international seminar on Cleft Surgery in March 2016. 

A small team made up of surgeons, nurses, trainees and anaesthetists travelled to The Cleft Hospital, Gujrat, Pakistan, seeing more than 350 patients and operating on more than 80 children during the visit.