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Acid Attacks

A hair transplant surgeon from Manchester, who usually helps men with their receding hairlines, is getting ready to go to Pakistan to help a different type of patient. In the past Dr Asim Shamalak has treated people, including Callum Best with balding, but later this month he's heading back to his home country to help victims of acid attacks. He hopes that by operating on the victims and giving them new eyebrows and eyelashes, they'll be able to have a better quality of life. In this interview ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Radio Manchester and Lancashire reporter Alice Gregr went to see him at his clinic to find out why he wants to do this.

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