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Understanding Congenital Heart Disease: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatments

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Congenital heart defects refer to defects in the heart that children are born with. These are one of the most common congenital defects globally. In India too, 200,000+ children are born with a congenital heart defect (CHD). These are the numbers of the cases that are recorded – there maybe many more which go undiagnosed and hence untreated. Only 25 per cent of the children diagnosed with a congenital heart defect are able to get the required treatment. A lack of awareness and access to resources are the biggest challenges in children getting timely treatment. Organisations like Genesis Foundation, a congenital heart foundation India has been taking steps to both build awareness and provide financial treatment to those who cannot afford the cost of treatment. The treatment for CHD is expensive and families that do not earn enough to meet their daily needs have to depend on funds they receive as a congenital heart disease donation to support the treatment. Symptoms of Congenital Heart
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Ed Helms won over Congenital Heart Defect

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Ed Helms is a real-life hero and an inspiration for children who suffer from Congenital Heart Defects. Anybody can make donation for children suffering in India by scanning this QR code. Who can forget the iconic Stu (Stuart Price) in the Hangover trilogy or Andy Bernard from The Office? Played by Ed Helms, his characters are often unforgettable owing to his brilliant acting. Ed Helms was born on January 24, 1974, in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. His full name is Edward Parker Helms and he is an actor, who is known for movies like, The Hangover, The Office and Vacation. He has done a lot of voiceover work for companies like Burger King, Lycos and CDnow.com etc.  He graduated from Oberlin College and studied at the Upright Citizens Brigade. He has lived in New York City for 10 years now and knows English as well as other languages like a little amount of Northern Irish, German, Dutch and French.  Being the supremely talented artist he is, he also plays bluegrass guitar and banjo in various ba
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Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Little Nafisa overcomes Pulmonary Stenosis through CSR support for healthcare

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This is the story of a sweet little Angel named Nafisa Khatun. Her parents Rashida and Manirul hail from Basirhat, West Bengal but they shifted to Pune, Maharashtra for better living conditions for their family. With a hard-earned income of Rs 9,000 per month Manirul worked as a construction labourer. Due to the COVID -19 pandemic last year, Manirul and his family went back to their hometown in West Bengal. Big sisters, Tanisha and Anisha were excited that their mom was going to have another baby. Rashida delivered her daughter at a district hospital in Basirhat on August 16, 2020. In this distraught time of Covid, Nafisa brought immense joy to the family and she looked like the perfect little baby girl. Post-discharge from the district hospital, Rashida and Manirul brought their daughter home. In the later part of the year when the COVID-19 situation felt better, Manirul and his family decided to leave for Pune and resume work as transportation were also running.  As Nafisa was growin
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Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
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Types of Heart Surgery

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Heart-related problems do not always require surgery. Sometimes they can be addressed with lifestyle changes, medications or nonsurgical procedures. But surgery is often needed to address problems such as heart failure, plaque buildup that partially or totally blocks blood flow in a coronary artery, faulty heart valves, dilated or diseased major blood vessels (such as the aorta) and abnormal heart anamolies that might require congenital heart disease treatment . There are many types of heart surgery. 1. Coronary artery bypass graft surgery (CABG)  It is a procedure used to treat coronary artery disease in certain circumstances. Coronary Artery Disease (CAD) is the narrowing of the coronary arteries (the blood vessels that supply oxygen and nutrients to the heart muscle), caused by a buildup of fatty material within the walls of the arteries. This buildup causes the inside of the arteries to become rough and narrowed, limiting the supply of oxygen-rich blood to the heart muscle. One way
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Location: Gurugram, Haryana, India
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