Central India’s first Homograft Valve Bank inaugurated

 

 

 

 

Health and Family Welfare Minister T S Singhdeo inaugurated Central India’s first ‘Cardiovascular Tissue and Homograft Valve Bank’ at Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centers for Child Heart Care Hospital in Nava Raipur on Saturday.

Speaking on this occasion, Minister Singhdeo said, “Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital has been offering unparalleled service to the world for more than a decade. With selfless service, the Hospital has saved more than 20,000 children and gave them and their families a new life and hope.”

“Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital is not only a major landmark of Raipur, but it is also a jewel in Chhattisgarh state’s crown, and India’s pioneering Child Heart Centre. With immense pleasure and gratitude, I have dedicated the new Valve Bank which will be a boost to heart care services in Central India and will help in saving many more lives in future,” he added. Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai graced the occasion and said, “Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust’s primary goal is ‘Love all and serve all’.

On the 10th anniversary of Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centers for Child Heart Care, a programme called ‘Sanjeevani 2000’ was launched on Saturday. A total of 2000 selected children successfully treated for CHD with cardiac surgeries and interventions returned to Nava Raipur Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital along with their parents or guardians. A multidimensional impact assessment of these children started on Saturday morning. Besides the impact on health, the mega assessment program has a holistic approach as it also focuses on the socio-economic status of the families of the child beneficiaries.

“The scope and the spread of the Mission of Good Health for All provided free of cost is growing in magnitude and impact. From congenital heart care to cardiac research, from maternal health and nutrition to lifelong wellness, from

primary healthcare to sophisticated paediatric cardiac surgical interventions, patients cared and cured from every state of India and many developing countries, from learning to teaching to training, its centres are fast growing into recognised centres of national development,” said Dr C. Sreenivas, Chairman of Sri Sathya Sai Health and Education Trust which in turn runs Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centres for Child Heart Care hospitals and centres. Former Indian Cricket Captain Sunil Gavaskar, Secretary of Health and Family Welfare Department Prasanna R, Dr Shaun Setty, Vivek Narayn Gour and many other renowned dignitaries were present during the inaugural ceremony.