CHF HRIDAAN

Congenital Heart Disease is the most common birth defect, 1 child is born with a heart defect in every 100 live births in India. About 180000 to 200000 children are born in a year with this defect and only 15000 children get treated in a year, others die or are added to the already existing pool of waitlisted children.

The lack of awareness, funds and hospitals are the major concern in our country. Majority of the hospitals are located in Southern part of India, we only have AIIMS and PGI with infrastructure for handling pediatric surgeries. None of the Government hospitals in and around Delhi has a pediatric cardiology ICU . The pediatric cardiac patients have to share the infrastructure and specialists with the adult cardiology. This leads to lot of complications in the post OP care.

The cost of surgeries/ treatments in private hospitals is very high for a child from underprivileged family to afford. This leads to their losing their children and they become mute spectators to this and lead a life of guilt and tragedy for the whole family.The helpessness lasts for the life time especially for the parents.

We register these children who get diagnosed with any congenital heart defect into our CHF HRIDAAN program and offer financial assistance for the treatment of the child. It involves a documentation process where the parent ahs to submit the income certificate which has to be attested by the village/ area official at the DC office. The address proof, adhaar copies of both parent, birth certificate of the child, consent forms for waiting period risk etc are to be duly filled and signed. After the documentation is done, the fundraising from our side starts and as and when the fund get generated from CSR donors or individuals, the hospital and specilaist is identified and date for treatment id fixed, followed by the treatment.We offer free followups for the child after treatment.

Through this project, we wish to get 10 children diagnosed with TETROLOGY OF FALLOT ( TOF) treated over a period of 6 months

We wish to get children with identified cardiac defects treated and grow up as healthy individuals and lead a normal life as any other normal child.

We wish to help the family live with dignity and not lead a traumatic life if the child dies due to lack of funds and leaves the family guilty for rest of their lives.