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By Our Staff Reporter
BANGALORE, JAN. 8. Tired from a long journey and a host of medical examinations, three-year-old Manar Naseem Lateef sleeps in her mother's lap, oblivious of the bustle around her. Manar, whose arms are jabbed with needles for saline drips, has travelled across countries to get her tiny heart repaired — she has pulmonary valve stenosis, a congenital heart defect in which the blood flow from the heart to the pulmonary artery leading to the lungs is blocked. She is one of the six Iraqi children who arrived in Bangalore on Saturday morning to undergo cardiac surgery at Manipal Heart Foundation. The children were brought here through the efforts of K.M. Cherian, paediatric cardiac surgeon from Chennai and consultant at the foundation, his team of doctors, and Jonathan Miles from Israel. Dr. Cherian and his team of doctors will conduct the surgeries on Sunday.
`No facilities in Iraq'
Manar's mother, Basima Younis, who teaches Islam in Baghdad, says she is relieved to have been able to bring her child here as there are no facilities for the surgery in Iraq. The six children are accompanied by a member of their families, a cardiac surgeon, Ammar Salah, and a paediatric cardiologist, Zuhair I. Mahmood. Brothers Together, a charity organisation based in Amman, Jordan, which is dedicated to helping needy children, coordinated the efforts to bring the children here. According to Jennifer Hall of the organisation, who also accompanied the children, the medical infrastructure in Iraq has collapsed. There is no option but to take sick children out of the country for treatment. "We sent Dr. Cherian the echocardiographs of many children who need cardiac surgery, and he chose six of them."
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