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ENQUIRING ABOUT HEALTH: (From right) J.S. Rajkumar, chairman, Lifeline Group of Hospitals, David T. Hopper, U.S. Consul General, and Kanimozhi, Rajya Sabha MP, with children having congenital heart defects, at the Lifeline Hospitals in Chennai on M onday.
CHENNAI: Lifeline Hospitals, Chennai, signed a memorandum of understanding with the University of Missouri,Columbia and Gift of Life International to provide free or subsidised surgeries to children with congenital heart defects. Project Mission Save Heart was launched in the hospital on Monday, with a team of doctors from both collaborating organisations performing surgeries on at least eight children. GOLI sponsored the procedure — completely in some cases and partially in others. P. Russo, visiting cardiac surgeon from Missouri and N. Kapadia, chief cardiac surgeon, Lifeline, performed the surgeries together. The Save Heart, Save Child project is the first initiative of the newly-founded Lifeline Heart Foundation, J.S. Rajkumar, chairman, Lifeline Hospitals, said. It had undertaken to treat complex paediatric cardio-vascular diseases at subsidised costs for the socio-economically weaker children who required immediate treatment and intervention. David Hopper, U.S. Consul-General, said the United States was concerned about healthcare around the world. The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief had been extended for another five years and the amount available doubled to $30 million. He congratulated the government of Tamil Nadu on doing a commendable work in the battle against HIV/AIDS. Kanimozhi, MP, urged the project to look at children in remote and rural areas, where there was little access to medicare. A number of children in these areas were suffering from disabilities that were caused by the failure to treat minor problems and infections early on. R. Ravi Kumar, senior consultant, interventional cardiology; Joe Hetherington, secretary, GOLI; and S.R. Raja, MLA, spoke.
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