Imphal, February 14, 2010: The "Bal Bidya Yojana", a scheme related with the saving life of children suffering from heart disease by extending monetary assistant which already started implementation in some other states of the country is yet to implement in the north eastern state including Manipur, said Dr Satyajit Bose, chairman of the Mission Hospital, Durgapur speaking at the second day of the conference of the Rotary Club of Imphal today.

Rotary Club of Imphal (Rotary International district 3240) is hosting district conference of the club currently undergoing at jubilee hall of the RIMS from yesterday.

As part of the conference, medical check up to children who had availed the heart surgery under the Heart to Heart Project of the Rotary Club was conducted today.

The check up to the children was conducted by Dr Satyajit.

He told reporters that Mission Hospital had successfully conducted heart surgery to nine children under the scheme.

The surgery conducted to one of the children named L Albert was the most serious one and success in conducting the operation to him was the first ever success in the medical history of the globe.

The hospital will continue to extend assistance to the Rotary Club in implementing the Heart to Heart Project, he assured.

Chairman of the project Dr Kh Palin who is also the managing director of the Shija Hospital observed that for every 1000 children, eight of them are suffer from heart related diseases.

Fifty percent of the children can be cure with surgery.

He went on to say that the problem facing by the children suffering from the disease is children unable to go to school.

There are around 12,000 children of such category whose parents could not affort money to perform necessary surgeries.

The Heart to Heart Project, Pallin recalled, has been implementing in the state from October 2008.During the period, screening to 114 children done and listed out 40 children who needed surgery and conducting operations in phases of three children in each phase.

Nine children had so far been conducted he said adding that each operations cost Rs 1.30 lakh.

Half of the cost is borne by the club while the other half by the Mission Hospital, he added.

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