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Be the Change: Donate to Make a Difference in Poor Children’s Lives

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  -Contributed by Prarthna Raheja Millions of poor children in India die every year because they lack quality healthcare, thus suffering from fatal health issues, such as congenital heart defects (CHDs). Genesis Foundation, as a prominent non-governmental agency, is working towards solving the crisis by offering medical treatment to critically ill, poor children. With a donation for heart surgery , you will be able to save lives and bring hope to families who can no longer access quality medical services. The Burden of Congenital Heart Defects in India Congenital heart disease is a very common birth defect in India, found in approximately 200,000 newborns annually . Such defects, such as heart structural malformations, usually require urgent surgical intervention or catheter-based treatment. Failure to treat these in time results in many children living with terrible health conditions or losing their lives. The socioeconomic context aggravates this issue, with families earning les...
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Health Is Improving Globally, But India Still Has The Most Child Deaths

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Heart disease is the leading killer of Indian adults.  A medical worker administers polio drops to an infant at a hospital during the pulse polio immunization programme in Agartala, capital city of India's northeastern state of Tripura, January 18, 2015. The programme aims to immunize every child in the country under five years of age with the oral polio vaccine. REUTERS/Jayanta Dey (INDIA - Tags: HEALTH SOCIETY) India still has the largest share of deaths of children under the age of five, new data from the Global Burden of Disease (2016), published early on Friday morning in the medical journal Lancet, shows.The GBD is the only annual, comprehensive, peer-reviewed assessment of global trends in health, providing global and national estimates on more than 330 diseases, causes of death, and injuries in 195 countries across the world. The study is coordinated by the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington, Seattle (USA).Mortality ra...
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Read how Parvati and Shyamji never lost hope for their newborn daughter, who was diagnosed with CHD

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Parvati and Shyamji were elated to be expecting their first child. However, their happiness seemed short-lived. Their newborn daughter began to turn blue right after her first cry, as she came into this world. The doctors then told the couple, that their baby was suffering from a congenital heart defect . Though shocked, they were determined not to lose hope. They were willing to go the extra mile and do whatever was in their power to find answers. After the initial stabilization period, the baby was transferred to a private hospital where an echo revealed that she was suffering from a transposition of great arteries, a condition wherein the two main blood vessels of the body, the aorta and the pulmonary artery arise from the wrong chambers of the heart. Original Article Reference: http://www.genesis-foundation.net/The_Story_of_Parvati.aspx
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