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HOW IT STARTED
• Sep ‘09: RC Asansole & Imphal• 24 Complex open heart surgeries
Mr.Ajit Irom Mr.Gaurang DesaiMr. Chaurjit Singh
THE SILVER LINING
• MR.ASHOK AGARWAL, DG • MATCHING GRANTS• HOPE FOR 50 CHILDREN OTHERWISE
DESTINED TO PERISH
PROBLEM
• Congenital heart disease is a serious and common cause of life threatening morbidity amongst children in India.
• The statistics are frightening. It is estimated that every year 1,80,000 children are born with heart defects!
• For every thousand children under the age of 15 years, four have congenital heart disease.
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GOOD NEWS
• Most of these children can be treated, usually with surgery,
• Add many decades of productive life• Obvious benefit to the child and the family, • Potential contribution to society!
• All modalities of modern medical treatment now exist in the country.
• These advanced facilities are not available to the majority of the population, for reasons of poverty and for logistical reasons of distance to the facilities.
• The poor village folk have very little chance of advanced medical care.
• Heart surgery itself is fairly esoteric and also expensive.
• Children’s heart surgery even more so.
In the west paediatric cardiac surgery is not only a super-speciality but an ultra-super-speciality, done at supra-regional, that is quaternary care centers
At present there are only a handful of centres in the country which have the facilities and infrastructure to correctly diagnose, give proper management and ultimately successfully operate on small children with heart defects.
• Successful paediatric cardiac care (including surgery) requires expensive equipment, high-grade environment, and of course highly skilled man power
• The cost of surgery in these hospitals average around $3,000 to $3,500. (compared to $30,000 to $100,000 in USA).
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS
• COST TO HOSPITAL: Rs.1,20,000/-• CONTRIBUTION BY RH2H: Rs.70,000/-
(inclusive of pre op stay, investigation,medicines, on a closed ended package basis)
• THE MISSION HOSPITAL takes care of the restt