An eight-month-old Pretoria baby boy has undergone a life-saving surgery operation to fix a large hole in his little heart thanks to the generosity of a team of top South African doctors who teamed up with healthcare companies.
Durban - An eight-month-old Pretoria baby boy has undergone a life-saving surgery operation to fix a large hole in his little heart and is back home with his family, thanks to the generosity of a team of top South African doctors who teamed up with healthcare companies and did the procedure for free.
Sana Maher, Muhammad Noor’s mother,said that when he was two weeks old she noticed he was a bit congested and wasn’t feeding well. “Earlier this year Muhammad Noor was diagnosed with ventricular septal defect [VSD], or a hole in the wall between the two lower chambers of his heart. It was not clear at first how badly his tiny heart was affected, but it soon became evident that the hole was so large that it would likely become debilitating, potentially even life-threatening, if not corrected soon,” says cardiothoracic surgeon and co-founder of the Maboneng Heart Institute, Dr Erich Schürmann.
“We prayed for a solution to help get the operation for our baby sooner but we aren’t on medical aid and at times it felt like there was little hope. Interventional paediatric cardiologist Prof Lindy Mitchell at Steve Biko assisted with the application, and soon we got the good news that he was accepted for surgery at Netcare Sunninghill Hospital. We couldn’t believe it, Muhammad Noor would have his operation much sooner than expected as a beneficiary of the Heart-to-Heart campaign, ” Sana says.
“We had no symptoms at any stage fortunately, but it meant Muhammad Noor’s operation had to be postponed as a precaution. We had to be patient for just a few weeks longer, and thankfully towards the end of August his procedure could go ahead,” his mother remembers. “Thank goodness, the operation went well. He is recovering quickly and was back home after a few days. Muhammad Noor and I had never been apart before, and now that he is home and the hole in his heart has been repaired it is such a relief, I cannot express my gratitude,” says Sana, who lives with her son in Erasmia, Pretoria.
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