The Relief India Trust Gives a Heartbeat to Children

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Many children are born with heart problems and others may develop these complications as they grow, this is not limited to children alone. This calls for medical intervention in the form of heart transplants. A heart transplant is the removal of a damaged and diseased heart to replace it with a healthy donor heart. This is a demanding procedure that calls for a number of procedures for the exercise to be successfully conducted. Relief India Trust NGO has rolled out programs that ensure the relevant institutions have an easier time in carrying out this exercise.

Funding.

A heart transplant is an expensive exercise that is elusive for the needy in society. It is also a sad reality that it is the needy that are affected by this condition of heart disease or heart failure.

Relief India Trust works to ensure that children who need this surgery and are not able to afford it are attended to by availing funds for them. The organization also makes it possible for patients to meet citizens with a big heart willing to pay for the surgeries.

Awareness campaigns.

The organization organizes organ donation campaigns in the community for people to go for checkups and for donors to help their loved ones. For heart transplants this means that those who have heart problems can be identified and shortlisted as potential candidates for transplants. The identified candidates are then taken to health care centers for further attention.

Pre surgical preparation.

Once the patient has been brought to the hospital, there are a number of things to be done before surgery. The donor has to be identified in this case, brain dead people or those who have died but the heart is still beating. The patients have to be taken through psychological and physical tests to check their mental health and the ability to use a new heart. The evaluation and psychological preparation also includes pre surgical medication. Immuno- suppressants are administered to the patient to ensure that their immune systems do not reject the new organs. All this is done while the surgical teams remove the donor heart and conduct thorough examination. The Relief India Trust supports all this by availing nurses and medical teams to these hospitals.

During the surgery there are nurses that help the surgeons with the equipment, blood, and the general smooth running of the theatre and the operation procedure. These may also be sourced from the organization's personnel.

After the surgery.

Patients after being successfully operated, need critical attention for them to recover fully and continue with normal life. Medication has to be administered and proper nutrition is important. All this needs committed individuals to monitor the patient and help them where necessary. Workers at Relief India Trust are available in various hospitals to do this. This care extends to homes when the patients are discharged to recover at home.

Therapy may be required by some patients in order for them to respond and adjust to the new hearts. Physiotherapists are engaged in this exercise to avoid any complications on the final stages of the healing process.