Congenital Heart Defect

In India, around 2,00,000 babies are born with Congenital Heart Defects (CHD) each year. These defects affect the structure of a baby’s heart and how it functions. CHD varies from mild (such as a small hole in the heart) to severe (such as missing or poorly formed parts of the heart). Mild defects often do not require treatment. If the defect is severe, surgery or interventional procedures are usually required within the first few years of the child’s life.

Modern surgical strategies and treatment by assisted technologies often leads to complete physiological repair. However, these surgeries demand extensive resources, making advanced care highly expensive for many families in India. Tiara funds these expensive state-of-the-art surgeries to help cure the heart defects.