An eleven-member United Kingdom paediatric team performed heart surgeries on 19 children in association with the Heart and Brain Institute of the Andhra Hospital Group.

In a meeting organised to thank the U.K. charity called the Healing Little Hearts, Andhra Hospitals managing director P V Ramana Murthy said that this was the second year that the Healing Little Hearts had performed the surgeries free of cost on underprivileged children who were suffering with congenital heart and other cardiac disorders. Complex cardiac operations were performed on 17 children last year. Heart operations were performed on another 15 children in March this year and within six months operations have been done on 19 children this month, he said.

The kids are doing well

All the 19 children are doing well and they would be discharged in a few days, he said. The team members came from hospitals of international repute like the Great Ormond Street Hospital, London, Glenfield Hospitals, Leicester, Royal Liver Pool Children’s Hospital of U.K. and the Children’s Hospital, Brisbane, Australia, he said.

Paediatric interventional cardiologist from Leicester Vikram Kudumula, Paediatric intensive care specialists Marijuana, Julia and Nayan Setty from Liverpool led the team.

source: http://www.thehindu.com / The Hindu / Home> National> Andhra Pradesh / by Special Correspondent / Vijayawada – August 14th, 2016