Registration opens for 'Free Children Heart Surgery Camp'
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, January 20 2021:
Sky Hospital today announced that a one week long 'Free Children Heart Surgery Camp' will start on April 3, 2021 .
The week long free heart surgery camp is jointly organised by Healing Little Heart (HLH) (Indian Branch), United Kingdom; Manipur Heart Foundation and Sky Hospital, said a statement issued by Sky Hospital.
Free OPD and free Echo will be provided to the children selected for the camp and a team of 10 specialists of HLH based in Mumbai and Delhi will be arriving at Imphal on April 3, and they will be performing 2-3 surgery per day for 7 days, added the statement.
Dr Shyamkishore Lairikyengbam, chief cardiologist and chairman of Sky Hospital appealed to the people of Manipur and North Eastern India to take advantage of such a unique opportunity.
The statement added that the camp was actually scheduled for May, 2020 but had to be postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic, but as the situation is improving and the children born with such birth heart defects will not survive without early surgical correction, HLH and Sky Hospital decided to go ahead with the free heart surgery camp.
The registration for the camp can be done from January 21 till February 27, 2021, added the statement.