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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
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The importance of new-born screening in Congenital Heart Defects

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Congenital Heart Defect (CHDs) are structural abnormalities of the heart present at the time of birth of a child.   CHDs are the most common cause of death due to congenital anomalies in the developed world. Although CHD include a wide spectrum of conditions, they can broadly be classified into critical CHD and non-critical CHD. Critical CHDs are those defects where failure to identify the condition within the first month after birth could potentially result in death or a significant disability. The critical CHDs include Pulmonary atresia, Severe Pulmonary stenosis or atresia, Hypoplastic left heart syndrome, Aortic stenosis, Transposition of Great arteries, Obstructed total anomalous pulmonary venous drainage and Severe coarctation. Timely diagnosis is critical to the effective treatment forcongenital heart defects . However, the clinical recognition of CHD in the newborn period is often challenging. This is because the symptoms of
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