An advertisement appeared in Daily Dawn, Pakistan. April 2003
Heart Patient: Indian offer
I would like to inform you that we are a group of heart care specialists who have performed over 19000 major surgeries on patients , predominantly from poor families, in the last 13 years at Kalkata and Banglore, India. We have done over 8000 operations on children - a few thousand, of them being new born - suffering from complex heart problems.
We have special interest in children suffering from complex heart problems. It is primarily because of our philosophy of life. We at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Banglore, get children from all our the world for major operations in which we have considerable experiences.
We attended to several children, some of them were barely on-week-old, who came from Pakistan for major reconstructive operations, and, by the grave of God, they all had their operations and went back home happily. We have noticed that almost-to-do families.
All our institutions in India are built for the poor and patients coming from working-class families. Of course, we do get large numbers of patients coming from rich families but the philosophy of our founders and management is to treat patients from lower socio-economic strata. I am sure there are thousands children born with complex heart problems from poor families of Pakistan.
Those families which have children suffering from heart problems but cannot afford expensive heart operations can contact us for help. Heart operations on children are not as expensive as people think they are, and there are good numbers of institutions like ours in this world where operations on children are done at concessional charges, specially for children from poor families.
Once we get the medical details of children, we will plan the future course of action, The children who are selected by us for free operations do not have to spend any money at all, and we will accommodate the child and one parent at our hospital at our cost. They only have to buy the air ticket to and from Pakistan.
If anybody needs any other information about our hospital, they can access our website. www. hrudayalaya.com
Dr. Devi Shetty
Chairman, Narayana
Hrudayalaya, Banglore,
India
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