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Manipal Hospital and Rotary International to Help 40 Needy Children

As part of its Corporate Social Responsibilty, Manipal Hospital,Bangalore and Rotary International (RI) have joined hands to facilitate the heart surgery of 40 underprivileged children suffering from Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). So far, the hospital has already conducted 16 operations successfully.

More than 1,50,000 children are born with CHD every year in India. "The sad state of affairs is that only about 5,000 manage to get treated, mostly with sponsorships and government aid. There are a large number of children with serious heart diseases in India who can be given a new lease of life with timely heart surgery," said Dr Prasad Krishnan, Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon, Manipal Hospital. "We are happy that the paediatric cardiology team has been able to bring smiles back to the faces of the children and their parents," said Dr Krishnan.

Over 10 per cent of urban Indians have CHD. Around 50 per cent of all heart attacks among Asian Indian men occur under the age of 55 and 25 per cent under the age of 40, unheard of in any other population.

EH News Bureau