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  • 12 May, 2015
    18-hour-old baby from Mathura India\'s youngest patient to undergo an open heart surgery

    An 18 hour-old baby from Mathura defied all odds and emerged as the youngest patient in India to undergo an open heart surgery. With a heart condition in which most newborns do not survive, his father along with a team of doctors in Delhi defied all odds.

    "I called people that I am blessed with a baby boy. But in 10 minutes, things changed for this first time. Little did I know that the first time I am holding my son it will be to carry him to another hospital," Mayank's father Gopal Aggarwal said.

    The "Blue Baby" Mayank, was born with his veins attached to his heart in abnormal positions. Adding to the problem was an inadequate medical infrastructure. Mayank had to be transported to Delhi within hours of his birth. Surgery was the only hope and there was no guarantee. Yet Dr KS Iyer's team of 10 doctors battled for six days to save Mayank's life.


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