Georgetown– 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. "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"., said Jeanette Singh, a registered nurse. The easiest part of doing these missions is getting the group on the aircraft. However, prior to this there is a tremendous amount of work to be done before this can happen. The patients will be treated at Max Heart and Vascular Centre in Saket, Delhi. The cardiac team consists of Dr. K.S, Dagar, cardiacsurgeon and Dr. Viresh Mahajan, pediatric cardiologist. Dr. Mahajan conducted a free cardiac clinic in Guyana in October 2011 which was arranged by Three Rivers Kids Foundation.
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