Baby with heart defect to fly to India for treatment
Manama : Parents of the newborn baby, who was facing passport hurdles, are finally at ease as they leave for India tomorrow for emergency treatment.
The newnorn baby, admitted to Salmaniya Medical Complex paediatric intensive care unit, was born with a congenital heart disease and has to undergo a major heart surgery.
“We are travelling to India (Chennai) on June 12 for our boy’s surgery. The surgery is going to be held at the Lifeline Hospital in Chennai,” Ahmed Saleh, father of the child, told DT News, thanking each and every person who donated generously for the boy’s treatment.
DT News had reported the plight of the cash-strapped parents seeking financial aid to save the child. Though the parents faced passport hurdles it was later solved.
The baby was born on May 12 with a heart disease called Hypoplastic left heart syndrome (HLHS), a complex and rare heart defect where the left side of the heart is critically underdeveloped.
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