The Three Rivers Foundation is making arrangements to send a group of 13 children from Guyana to Max Hospital in Delhi, India, in February next year for open heart surgery.
President of Three Rivers Kids Foundation of Ontario, Canada, Jeanette Singh also said in a release that six-year-old Nicholas Dudnauth returned to Guyana recently following successful open heart surgery.
Dudnauth was suffering from trasitional atrioventricular canal defect with leakage of valves and very high lung pressures, the release noted. His surgery was very complex but this was the only hope and he made a marvellous recovery. He will have to take medications for another three months.
For now he will need proper administration of medications over the next few months and his parents must follow diet restrictions and his fluid intake and output, according to briefings given to his mother.
Dudnauth was examined by Dr Viresh Mahajan, Paediatric Cardiologist from Max Hospital in Delhi who had conducted a free cardiac screening clinic in Guyana in September this year.
Dr Mahajan had stressed that Dudnauth was in need of urgent cardiac intervention.
Three Rivers Kids Founda-tion is a charitable organization dedicated to helping sick children in Guyana whose parents are too poor to afford medical care. Its local office is at the Gandhi Youth building on Woolford Avenue, Georgetown.
