1 in 125 children are born with a broken heart.
Is congenital heart disease common?
In India:
0 to 3
lakh infants are born in India every year with congenital heart disease.
0 lakh to 80,000
will need some kind of intervention.
0,000
children receive treatment.
What is the treatment
for congenital heart disease?
Open heart surgery is needed in 60-70 % of cases.
Angioplasty can treat the remaining 30-40% of cases.
Is treatment effective?
- Due to economic reasons and lack of high-quality medical care, almost 75000 infants born with congenital heart disease die in India die every year.
- Government hospitals treat 20- 25% of these cases but are unable to cope with the number of children requiring treatment and often lack facilities to treat complex cases.
- The good news is that post surgery, most children do well and lead normal lives.
How much does treatment cost?
- Even in general / free wards of private hospitals, heart surgery is expensive due to the high cost of consumables.
- Average cost of surgery for each procedure in a private setup is Rs 2 lakhs for open heart and 1 lakh for closed heart procedures.
Why is congenital heart a priority
for Healing Touch?
- Congenital heart disease is common and is seen in 8 per 1000 births.
- Congenital heart disease is life threatening, but the results of surgery are excellent.
- With interventional surgery, children go back home within 3 days and with open heart surgery they are home in 10 days.
What can I do to help?
Healing Touch has tied up with major private and government hospitals to offer subsidized treatment to low-income families.
All we need is financial assistance to mend their hearts.
With your help, we can make a difference one child at a time.