Nigerian baby Udenka, who has undergone rare heart surgery, with his mother, at Ramesh Cardiac and Multispecialty Hospital in Vijayawada. However, Udenka has got a new lease of life as paediatric cardio- thoracic surgeons N. Srinath Reddy and R. Benedict Raj of Ramesh Cardiac and Multispecialty Hospital in Vijayawada performed the procedure on Udenka on March 27. A medical tourism company contacted Ramesh Cardiac and Multispeciality Hospital in Vijayawada,” says Udenka Gloria, mother of the boy. A heart procedure was performed on a seven-year-old Nigerian boy last month and a Libyan child will undergo surgery shortly. For instance, Udenka had to fly for more than 20 hours from Abuja to undergo the surgery in Vijayawada,” Dr Ramesh Babu adds.

Source: The Hindu April 09, 2018 17:15 UTC