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Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, October 05:
Screening test for the Rotary Club of Imphal�s Heart to Heart project was conducted at Rotary Bhavan, Mantripukhri this morning.
Altogether 114 children below 15 years of age with heart ailments attended the test.
Speaking to reporters by the sideline of the screening test, president of the Rotary Club of Imphal Dr Palin said that the project aims at benefiting at least 10 to 15 children with heart ailments who belong to poor families and are unable to afford heart surgery in the first year.
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It is also targeted to complete the first year of the project by June next year.
These children will be sent to hospitals outside the State in batches.
Each batch will have five children.
Estimating that treatment of the children may cost Rs 85,000 each, Dr Palin informed that the Project would spend at least Rs 16,85,000 for 15 patients in the first year.
Echocardiogram of the children who attended the screening test today will be taken free of cost at Shija Hospital from October 13 to 25 at 2 pm.
Around 20 children will be called for taking Echocardiogram on these days starting with those patients listed against serial number 1 to 20 on October 13, Dr Palin said.
Results of the Echocardiogram will not be given to the families of the patients as these results would be needed for dispatching to hospitals based outside the State.
For the children who attended the screening test conducted by three specialists today, a board meeting will be held to select the deserving patients for the project, he added.
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