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Message: <blockquote data-quote="NeedyHearts" data-source="post: 5929059" data-attributes="member: 249163"><p><strong>CHD In Sri Lanka:</strong></p><p></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Statistics indicates <em><span style="color: red">one child in every 400</span></em> born in Sri Lanka suffers with CHD (read more: <a href="http://www.chplanka.org/index.htm" target="_blank">http://www.chplanka.org/index.htm</a>)</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">An article published recently in The Island says <span style="color: black">“CHD affects about one out of every 125 babies born. Quite a number of them with more complicated defects and who are in resource-scarce poor developing countries will not survive their first year. Twice as many children die each year from a CHD than all forms of paediatric cancers combined.” (url for source: <a href="http://www.island.lk/2009/10/29/features3.html" target="_blank">http://www.island.lk/2009/10/29/features3.html</a>)</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Annually more than 1200 children needs heart surgeries in Sri Lanka</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span></span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Two dedicated to Pediatric (child) heart surgery units are in Sri Lanka. Lady Ridgeway Hospital facility since year 2005 has performed 1,181 surgeries with a success rate of 95%. That includes 437 surgeries in year 2008 and 340 surgeries in year 2007. Other unit is at Kandy Teaching Hospital.</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">In a year an average of 600 CHD surgeries performed in Sri Lanka</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Average waiting time for surgery is 2-years</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="color: black"><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">As well </span></span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Galle Teaching Hospital performs Child Heart surgeries. Recently with helps of team of foreign volunteers this facility have performed more than 100 heart surgeries with in a short period. </span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">Little-ones battling with CHD would not survive this two-year time to face the surgery</span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'"><span style="font-size: 12px"><span style="font-family: 'Symbol'">· </span><span style="font-family: 'Verdana'">CHD surgery facilities already available in few leading private hospitals in capital Colombo (of course a large sum of money is required)</span></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>

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