Rotary Humanit-arian Trust is providing support to poor and deserving children in Pakistan and India who are suffering from congenital heart disease. As part of the peace initiative Rotarians in both countries have joined hands to provide complete surgery to these children. Rotary has already committed more than Rs 25 million towards the surgeries of Pakistani children.
According to a rough estimate every year more than 70,000 children in Pakistan are born with congenital heart disease. A large majority of these children come from underprivileged families who cannot afford surgery. Pakistan at present has limited facilities and there are only a few institutions which provide affordable congenital heart surgeries. These include NICVD and recently Agha Khan Hospital which has agreed to perform surgeries on children with Congenital Heart Disease in Karachi. These surgeries are also being performed at the Children's Hospital in Lahore and AFIMC Islamabad.
Rotary aims to undertake the surgery during the course of two years of a 1000 child born in Pakistan with Congenital Heart Disease. Iqbal Qureshi, District Governor for Rotary commented that "Rotary also plans on moving towards developing resources and establishing a hospital in the near future specializing in cardiac related problems for adults and children, which will no doubt allow more children who are afflicted with this disease to be cured."
Dr Bose from India is also visiting Pakistan this month to work with local doctors and hospitals to help children who are victims of this disease. The collaboration between Indian doctors and Pakistani doctors has been extremely helpful in supporting Rotary to organize surgeries for children with congenital heart disease in Pakistan and India.
Faiz Kidwai, Chairman Rotary Humanitarian Trust commented, that this programme will be known as;"Save Little Hearts." If someone deserving has a child affected by this disease they should not hesitate to contact Rotary who will do their best in assisting and guiding the family towards getting the best possible medical attention for their child. Kidwai also requested that anyone who can support the programme should contribute towards the programme either by cash contributions to RHT or by sponsoring a child surgery.-PR
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