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Mother beseeches public on toddler’s behalf
The mother and other relatives of a toddler are beseeching the public for financial assistance to facilitate a life-saving heart surgery.
The ailing Akila Smith and her mother, Patricia Springer.
Akila Smith, two years, eight months of age, was diagnosed with a life-threatening heart condition when she was taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) by relatives.
Her mother, Patricia Springer, said that when the child was only three months old she began having difficulties in breathing and ‘started getting blue’.
She said that when the child was rushed to the city hospital she was diagnosed with her present condition.
The concerned mother said that medical staff there advised that they wait after a year to see if the child ‘would grow out the condition’, but as the months elapsed her condition seemed to worsen. Akila was kept on medication prescribed by GPHC doctors all this while.
According to Patricia Springer, just recently when she took the child to the hospital doctors confirmed that the hole was getting larger, and that the left side of the heart was not growing, as it should. She was later advised to seek corrective heart surgery for the child in India.
The mother approached Kids First Fund and has been working along with them ever since to make her daughter’s surgery a possibility.
So far, the family has raised some $750,000 but needs a further $400,000 to make the surgery possible.
Persons or entities interested in contributing to Akila’s surgery can call phone numbers 676 0261 or 684 7131. They can also call the Kids First Fund on 226 5926 and make donations in Akila’s name.
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