Help for infant given 2024 date for surgery

  • | Saturday | 17th November, 2018

New Delhi: Three-month-old Nancy, who was given a date for heart surgery in February 2024 by AIIMS , will now undergo an operation next week at a private hospital after her parents approached the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) for help. "They asked us to deposit Rs 57,000 but gave us a date for surgery in February 2024, citing a long waiting period. The HCFI team of experts examined the child and decided that she needed immediate surgery. Safdarjung authorities advised Nancy's family to take her to AIIMS for surgery. We cannot wait for so long as our daughter is in a lot of pain," Kumar said.The family then approached HCFI for help.

New Delhi: Three-month-old Nancy, who was given a date for heart surgery in February 2024 by AIIMS , will now undergo an operation next week at a private hospital after her parents approached the Heart Care Foundation of India (HCFI) for help. Nancy has a hole in her heart and required an urgent surgery, a senior HCFI official said.According to her father, Ajay Kumar, a resident of Faridabad , the baby had a cough and breathing problems following which she was admitted at Safdarjung hospital where she was diagnosed with ventricular septal defect with severe pulmonary artery hypertension. Safdarjung authorities advised Nancy's family to take her to AIIMS for surgery. They visited the premier hospital mid-October.She underwent several tests which confirmed she had a hole in her heart and the doctors at AIIMS said that she needed to undergo a surgery. "They asked us to deposit Rs 57,000 but gave us a date for surgery in February 2024, citing a long waiting period. We cannot wait for so long as our daughter is in a lot of pain," Kumar said.The family then approached HCFI for help. The HCFI team of experts examined the child and decided that she needed immediate surgery.

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