Week-long free children heart surgery camp at SKY Hospital from November 10
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, August 07 2019:
To augment the ongoing heart surgical programme of SKY Hosp�tal, a team of 12 specialists from Healing Little Heart (HLH), United Kingdom (UK) will arrive at Imphal on November 10 .
The UK team in association with Heart Team of SKY Hospital and Manipur Heart Foundation (MHF) will conduct a "Week-long Free Children Heart Surgery Camp" at SKY Hospital from November 10 to 16, said Dr L Shyamkishore, Chairman & Chief Cardiologist of SKY Hospital.
He was speaking to media persons during a press meet held at Sky Hospital, Imphal.
The UK team consists of highly qualified and experienced Paediatric Cardiac Surgeon, Anaesthetist / Intensivist, Paediatric OT nurse, Perfusionist, Paediatr�c CTVS post-op ITU nurses.
The joint team will be perform 3 - 4 open heart surgeries a day throughout the week.
Any child with birth heart defect may benefit from the camp.
Patients above 18 years of age are not eligible for the camp, he said.
Children belonging to BPL family and EWS (Economically Weaker Section) of the society will be given priority.
All charge from admission to discharge including operation charge, OT charge, ICU charge and hospital charge will be exempted.
Registration for the camp will start from 9 am of August 7 on first come first serve basis, he added.
A joint team specialists from HLH, UK and SKY Hospital had successfully conducted a similar week-long camp from March 3 to 9 where 9 children including one 2 months old child from Nagaland were operated successfully, Dr Shyamkishore said.