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Crown Prince to sponsor 100 heart surgeries

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Thiruvananthapuram: Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi Sheikh Mohammad bin Zayed Al Nahyan has agreed to sponsor 100 heart surgeries to financially backward patients in Kerala, as part of the Global Kerala Foundation's (GKF) scheme for free open heart surgery to the poor people, `Hridayapoorvam'.

Talking to presspersons here on Saturday, GKF working chairman G. Rajmohan said the Prince, expressing satisfaction over the humanitarian activities of the foundation, promised its chairman M.A. Yousafali to sponsor 100 patients. Though the GKF's plan was to provide the facility to 50 patients in the initial stage, 150 heart patients could be treated following the promise from the Prince, he said. The selection of eligible patients would be based on the applications forwarded to the Health Minister, he said. The project would start at KIMS Hospital here on August 20 and simultaneously at Lake Shore Hospital in Kochi, he said. - UNI

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