Addressing a press conference today, Dr Shivpreet Singh Samra of Grecian Super Speciality Hospital, Mohali, said a team of experts from Narayana Hrudalaya, Bangalore would conduct these surgeries along with the Grecian team in the second week of October.
Earlier, Grecian Hospital could successfully operate Ravi, the son of a gardener from Chandigarh, after an appeal was made to the public to donate Rs 80,000 required for his surgery. The overwhelming response from the public helped the hospital to collect over Rs 1.25 lakh and the balance amount would now be used to carry out these four surgeries as well. The total amount needed for these surgeries in is Rs 1.80 lakh after the full concession offered by the hospital.
Sharing the details of the children, Dr Samra said these children belong to poor families. Manmeet Kaur, a two-year-old daughter of Jaswinder Singh, who works as a small time tailor in Manikpur Sharif village near Kharar. Manmeet is suffering from Patent Ducturs Arteriosus (a hole in the heart) and she requires Rs 40,000 apart from Rs 25,000 that her family has barely managed to carry out the urgent heart surgery, added Dr Samra.
Similarly, one-and-a-half-year-old Arun is afflicted with a tetralogy of fallout ventricular septal defect, a heart ailment that needs an urgent surgery. “In Arun’s case, who is the son of a helper at a shop in Sector 26, Chandigarh, we need Rs 30,000 from public,” said Dr Samra.
Gulshan Kumar, son of an unemployed Ramesh Kumar, is suffering from double outlet right ventricle. In this case Rs 40,000 is needed apart from Rs 25,000 that Ramesh has managed, after exhausting all his personal resources, said Dr Samra.
The fourth patient to be operated is Hiral Lal, the son of a cart-puller Sher Singh. Hiral lal is suffering from pulmonary stenosis with ventricular septal defect that needs immediate surgery that would cost him Rs 65,000. “On behalf of Grecian Super Speciality Hospital, I would personally appeal to people to donate for the surgeries. The public support lent to Ravi shows that people indeed take our call seriously and donate earnestly. We only hope that this time, too, four needy children will gain from the public help that is the only hope left for their families,” Dr Samra added.