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SH-IP

Not all patients can be operated on during international medical programmes. Some children and young adults, affected by severe facial malformations or complex burn after-effects, need highly specialised treatments that require state-of-the-art resources, expertise and surgical facilities.

It is to respond to these extraordinary cases that Smile House Fondazione ETS developed the SH-IP programme (Smile House International Program): a natural extension of our mission to ensure that no patient is left behind.

Our mission: beyond every border

The goal of SH-IP is to bring the most fragile and complex patients to Italy, giving them access to multidisciplinary care pathways in highly specialised hospital settings.

We also welcome patients from countries where the Smile House network is not yet present, often referred by embassies, local authorities or humanitarian organisations. For us, the right to health and social inclusion knows no geographical boundaries.

A network of welcome and solidarity

Every patient who arrives in Italy through the SH-IP programme finds a network ready to support them. This is possible thanks to well-established partnerships with organisations that share our values:

Associazione KIM Onlus

For years, the association has welcomed and hosted young non-EU patients during their stay in Italy, offering them a safe and family environment during the pre- and post-operative periods.

Cooperativa IRIDE

This is the cooperative we worked with to take charge of a refugee family from Togo, enabling a young girl with cleft lip and palate to be successfully operated on.

Stories of care: our impact around the World

Over the years, we have applied the SH-IP protocol in different logistical settings, always managing to provide concrete help to patients from every part of the world.

2017-2024 | Ospedale Celio – Smile House Roma

Bara’a Al-Juki, a Libyan girl born in 2016 with cleft lip and palate, was operated on in 2017 and 2018 at the Ospedale Celio of the Italian Army.
In February 2024 she returned to Italy for a further procedure at the Smile House Centre in Rome, where she subsequently began orthodontic therapy. Accompanied by her father, Bara’a then stayed in Italy for the post-operative recovery period, during which our medical team continued to monitor the proper progress of the orthodontic treatment.

2024 | Aircraft Carrier Cavour

Aboard the ship Cavour, moored in Taranto, we took charge of three Armenian patients with severe facial conditions. One of them then continued treatment at the Smile House Centre in Rome, within the Ospedale San Filippo Neri.

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