KOCHI: A 15-day-old baby boy with a congenital heart problem, who was being taken in an ambulance by road from Mangaluru to Thiruvananthapuram (almost 600km away), was admitted to Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi on Tuesday, following the intervention of health minister K K Shylaja as the child’s condition was critical. The baby,...
Kochi: The 17-day-old infant brought to Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences in Kochi from Mangaluru was subjected to a heart surgery. The procedure was successful and the baby will be shifted to the intensive care unit soon, said authorities. The treatment is being carried out under the ‘Hridyam’ project of the Kerala Government. The infant...
This could help reduce child mortality, say experts Tamil Nadu, which lowered child mortality significantly in the past decade, could further the trend by investing in technology to treat congenital heart defects (CHDs), said experts. R. Krishna Kumar, head of the Department of Cardiology at the Amrita Institute of Medical Sciences, Kochi, said India had...