“Once a year is not enough”: Tiny Hearts holds annual camp for children with heart defects
25 Mar 2014, 2:30 PM
Lucy Lovell
Around 100 children and their parents will travel to Malé this week for the ‘Care for Tiny Hearts’ camp which seeks specialised treatment and detection for congenital heart defects.
An estimated 80% of these patients will have travelled long distances from the atolls for this rare opportunity for local treatment.
This is the sixth camp organised by local NGO Tiny Hearts of Maldives, running until March 26 at the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital.
Held just once a year, the event seeks to provide children registered with Tiny Hearts of Maldives the opportunity to consult pediatric cardiologists without travelling abroad.
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