“As soon as my wife gave birth, instead of hearing that she and the baby were doing good, I was told that my baby girl had a serious heart condition. The doctors at the government hospital told us that there was no time to waste; we had to immediately move her to a good hospital or she would die. I had not received my daily wages for that day, but my wife, Ashwini, our newborn baby girl and I left for the next train to Chennai from our hometown of Tiruvannamalai”-Venkatesan, father of 28-day-old Sakthi, who is fighting for her life in the ICU now.Baby Sakthi was born with her heart on the right side with her vessels abnormally connected, thereby making her body receive less oxygenated bloodAshiwini made sure she used to go for regular scans during her pregnancy, despite her family’s poverty. None of the scans had showed that her baby had a grave problem like this. Baby Sakthi’s heart is functioning abnormally because oxygenated blood is getting stuck in lung circulation whi
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