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Visakhapatnam
By Our Staff Reporter
VISAKHAPATNAM, DEC.19. Doctors at the Seven Hills Hospital have given a new lease of life to a 17-year-old girl who was suffering from a rare cardiac problem. The frail-looking girl, Bharati Lavanya, a polytechnic student, would be fit to attend college after 20 days and she can hereafter lead a normal life. ``The girl's problem was diagnosed as "tetrology of fallot (blue baby) with absent pulmonary valve,'' which is a rare condition,'' the chief cardiothoracic surgeon, T. Rajendra Prasad, and the consultant cardiologist, K. Gopalakrishna, told a media conference here on Sunday. The girl hailing, from the city, was diagnosed to be suffering from a heart ailment by doctors at the King George Hospital when she was six years old. She used to get tired frequently and looked small for her age. A few months ago she fell unconscious twice and she was again taken to the KGH, where the doctors referred her to the Nizam's Institute of Health Sciences.
MLA's gesture
The girl's mother approached the Visakhapatnam-II MLA, S. Ranga Raju, and sought his help in the treatment of the girl. Mr. Ranga Raju asked her to admit the girl in the Seven Hills Hospital assuring her that he would talk to the hospital authorities. Lavanya was successfully operated upon on December 11 and the same evening the ventilator support was withdrawn. The sutures were removed on the eighth day. ``We closed a big hole in the girl's heart and reconstructed a part of the heart with a tube-like structure, which was incorporated with a bio prosthetic valve. The valve costing Rs. 60,000 was imported from the US. The procedure will cost more than Rs. 2 lakhs anywhere in India,'' the doctors said. The hospital foundation met 50 per cent of the cost. The remaining cost of the operation was partly met by the MLA, the managing director of the CMR Mall, M.V. Ramana, and from the Chief Minister's Relief Fund. The MLA said that he was prepared to meet the cost of poor patients from his constituency, if doctors came forward to offer their services. The other team of doctors who were involved in the operation were: the cardiac anaesthetist, N. Vijaya Kumar, and B.R. Mohana Rao.
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