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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

The role of NGOs in improving the congenital heart defects landscape in India

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Congenital Heart defects are the most common birth defects in the world and in India. And yet, not many people are aware of this leading defect both among the general masses and the medical fraternity which forms the first line of medical care servicing people across the country.  In India every year more than 200,000 children are born with a heart defect. The burden of disease is so massive that the management of this condition will require a collaborative effort by the Government, corporate sector, Children’s Healthcare Foundation and Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOS).  There are a few NGOs who have been working for the last many decades to create am impact in this often overlooked yet critical health concern. Genesis Foundation and the Children Heart Foundation are some of these. The main areas where these NGOs have been able to create a huge impact are: 1) Build Awareness: awareness about congenital heart defects is scanty amongst the general population. When this disease hi