Sixteen patients for heart surgery in India

 Sixteen patients will be leaving Guyana on February 11th to obtain medical treatment in India. All the patients are suffering from congenital heart disease and will be undergoing open heart surgery at Max Hospital in Delhi. The group will spend 2 nights in Toronto on

their way to India. The entire mission is arranged by Three Rivers Kids Foundation of Canada, a registered charitable organization dedicated to helping Guyanese children. The children suffer from a variety of congenital heart disease such as Ventricular Septal Defects, Atrial Septal Defects (Hole in the heart), Tetrology of Fallot which is a more complex congenital disorder, valve prolapse and Rheumatic heart disease.
 
"This is the largest single group that the organization would have taken at any one time", said Jeanette Singh, President of Three Rivers Kids Foundation (TRKF) of Canada. 
 
She explained that it  took many months of hard work to make the arrangements such as obtaining passports, Indian and Canadian visas, flight arrangements, accommodation in India, operating room time, hundreds of phone calls, letters and emails.etc.
 
Three Rivers Kids Foundation has saved the lives of 63 children and young adults from Guyana. Most recently 6 year old Nocholas Dudnauth and 10 months old Kenneth Prince had to be sent urgently to Max hospital for emergency treatment. They both made marvelous recovery and returned to Guyana in November 2010 in good health.