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How Charitable Donations Online Help In Child Heart Surgery

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When the lives of young children, the future of the world, hang in the balance due to a condition they have absolutely no control over, the future starts looking grey. In India, over 200,000 kids have a heart defect at birth, i.e, a Congenital Heart Defect, affecting their entire lives ahead of them. Most of them have to get not one but many surgeries of varying severity to combat this illness. Imagine the plight of a parent who has to see their child suffer from something as serious as a heart problem. To add to it, they find out the problem is critical and the child needs multiple rounds of life-altering  surgeries. Now, to add to it, the parents don’t have the affordability to fund the medical procedures. Just the thought of it gives you chills, doesn’t it? Here’s what we can do about it. Whilst we as individuals may not be able to directly provide the required medical aid to the child or reach out to the family, there is a way to help them alleviate their agony of having to see

Babies & Heart Disorders: Need for Awareness

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Whenever we talk about heart disease, we normally associate it with the elderly population. However, babies have heart disorders too, and many of them are born with congenital heart defects. According to Indian Paediatrics journal, the estimated number of children born with congenital heart disease in India is more than 200,000 per year. Of these, about one-fifth are likely to have a serious defect, requiring intervention in the first year of life itself. Congenital Heart Defect (CHD) is the most frequently occurring congenital disorder and is responsible for 28% of all congenital birth defects. It occurs due to a defect in the formation of the heart. It is not always possible to determine the cause of congenital heart diseases. Although most new-borns present with critical CHD exhibit the symptoms and are identified soon after the birth, some are not diagnosed until after they are discharged. Early diagnosis is extremely important because children with high risk CHD can die if not pro