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Article: Heart kids need funds for urgent surgery
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- The Malay Mail
- Article date:
- December 6, 2007
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SOO Jian Ann seems like any other two-year-old, but he is
suffering from multiple health defects, one of which needs urgent
corrective surgery.
The boy, who was born without an anus, was operated three days
after birth and was advised to undergo a corrective heart surgery
for tetralogy of fallot in two years.
Besides that, Jian Ann was also born with a deformed right hand.
Diagnosed with a hole in his heart and having a blood vessel to
his lungs blocked when he was three days old, Jian Ann has to
undergo corrective surgery urgently as he risks developing
thrombosis (clotting and blockage) of blood vessels in the brain.
Having no means of forking out RM49,000 for his surgery - which ...