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Former First Lady takes another 12 children for treatment in India
Former First Lady of Guyana, Varshnie Singh, arrived in Chennai, India on Tuesday last with a dozen children suffering from complex heart diseases.
Seven of them have already been operated on at the Frontier Lifeline Hospital, the remaining five will be operated on before Monday.
Former First lady Varshnie Singh
This is Singh’s sixth visit to India to secure treatment for Guyanese children suffering from various heart ailments.
Each time, she would carry children with heart diseases for treatment after she has managed to raise through Kids First Fund, a welfare organisation she heads.
“I cannot wait to raise funds, with such ailments, delay is not wise. I have raised money for their airfares and the hospital said they would take money for the surgeries later. I am still raising funds,” she said.
Singh is optimistic because she has done it five times before.
“Last year, a Guyanese based in the US sponsored the surgeries. We have told them we will not charge for food and hospital stay,” said cardiothoracic surgeon, Dr K M Cherian, who heads Frontier Lifeline.
A team from his hospital had visited Guyana six years ago and had diagnosed more than 200 children with heart diseases.
“The country did not even have an Echo machine; we had to take one from Chennai. We knew many of them badly needed surgeries to survive and told them we were willing to help. That is how our journey towards treating kids from Guyana began,” Dr Cherian said.
Frontier Lifeline will keep the cost of treatment low.
“We have used pig veins instead of synthetic ones for young hearts. Our experience has shown that such patients don’t return to the hospital with problems. It reduces cost by many times and the success rate is very high,” he pointed out.
A team from the hospital brought the veins from Meat Product of India, Kerala, and these were used to replace the ailing veins in the hearts of three children.
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