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CHENNAI: The Madras Medical Mission (MMM) has launched a programme to treat underprivileged Nigerian children with congenital heart disease and gradually raise the standards of paediatric cardiology services in the West African country. MMM will collaborate with Save a Child’s Heart Foundation, an NGO in Nigeria, to make available its expertise to Nigerian child patients from low-income families. Ajit Mullasari, director of cardiology, told a press conference on Monday that a Centre of Cardiovascular Diseases would be set up at the University College Hospital in Nigeria under an agreement between MMM and Samuel Ilenre Omokhodiam, paediatrician-founder of Save a Child’s Heart Foundation. The foundation sponsored the travel and treatment costs of 15 children, including four girls, who underwent surgery over the last eight weeks at MMM. The surgery expenses for the children aged seven months-12 years ranged from Rs.60,000 to Rs.1.30 lakh, depending on the complexity of the disease. This was just one-sixth of the treatment costs in South Africa or the UK. MMM will train Nigerian doctors and paramedics in paediatric cardiology services. A team of consultants will also visit Nigeria twice a year for follow-up and to render technical support to doctors. “Corrective surgery in children facilitates complete cure unlike in the cases of adults in which setting back the clock by a decade or so can be the best outcome,” R. Suresh Kumar, a consultant, said. Another consultant, Ejaz Ahmed Sherif, said that even before the MoU was in place, 40 children from Nigeria had undergone surgery at MMM. Victoria Ita, a nurse who escorted the patients to Chennai, said many more underprivileged children were waitlisted for surgery and would be brought here in batches. Seychelles Health Minister Lloyd Marie Pierre said her Government had tied up with the MMM and Apollo Hospitals for treatment of patients with cardiac and kidney diseases. “We are keen on developing the relationship further.”
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