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Care plan for free heart surgeries to destitute children
Our Bureau
Hyderabad
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June 29
GIVING a new lease of life for destitute children suffering from heart ailments, Care Foundation has launched a programme to conduct surgeries free of cost with help from donors and philanthropic groups.
Gift of Life Inc, a philanthropic association based in New York, came forward to support 100 such interventions. "We supported 5,000 surgeries globally. In the last one and half years, we supported 230 children who underwent heart surgeries in India," said Mr Ravishankar Bhooplapur, Chairman of Gift of Life India Foundation and President of Rotary Club Great Neck (New York).
Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday, he said the foundation would fund 100 heart surgeries on children this year.
By the year-end, the foundation targets to complete 1,000 surgeries. Rotary Club will provide matching grants for some, while others would be fully funded by the foundation.
Speaking on the programme, Dr P. Krishnam Raju, Chairman of Care Foundation, and Dr Gopichand Mannam, its co-ordinator, said the `Care Little Hearts Fund' initiative was inspired by a programme aired by television channel highlighting the plight of 17 children afflicted with cardiac problems.
"Five of them were already operated on under the programme. We have evaluated 100 children more during the last six days," they said. They said the foundation had been flooded with phone calls offering to contribute to the programme.
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