Children's Healthcare Foundation

  Access to healthcare continues to remain a big challenge in countries like India. While the government has played a significant role in improving this to a large extent, there continue to exist many areas where people have limited or no access to specialized healthcare. This is especially true when one talks of congenital heart defects. Congenital hearts Defects(CHDs) are the leading birth defects in the country. Inspite of that awareness regarding the same is very less leading to a delay in diagnosis and treatment. The treatment for these defects continues to remains expensive and there are not many facilities that offer freeheart surgery for poor in India . With improvements in medicine, most children born with a CHD can live a near normal life, given they receive a timely diagnosis and treatment. However, since awareness remains low and the number of pediatric cardiac care centers remain low, not many children are able to get detected on time. Not only are the pediatric ca...