50-day-old beats Covid and a rare congenital heart disease | India News
KOLKATA: He was just 27 days old when diagnosed with a rare congenital heart disease. Even as doctors prepared to operate, came the next bad news — he was also Covid-positive. But the infant, now 50 days old, has managed to beat both. For Arup and Jaba Chandra, the joy of becoming parents was cruelly tempered just days before their baby turned a month old, when they found he had obstructed cardiac TAPVC (Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection), a rare condition affecting less than 1 in 10,000 babies. The residents of Katwa in Burdwan had noticed that the baby was gasping for breath. ...
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