By Alba Luz Arroyave Zuluaga | Project Leader
From Montelibano, located to the north of Colombia, Joselin with just one year, traveled 316 km for almost 7 hours with her mother Erika, to get to the San Vicente Fundación Children Hospital. Where she was diagnosed with interatrial communication. It means that her heart was pumping blood to the lungs. She had an emergency surgery by the cardiovascular surgeons of the Hospital.
Her mother told us the difficulties she had at her region to get attention for her daughter who was lacking of breath and for some moments she was turning purple. She was said that it was a case of pneuomonia and that was the reason that Joselin had a significant decline in health that led to the surgery and by fortune, her recovery was successful.
We want to thank the people who support the Child Unit of the Heart. And with the love and our team’s hard work, more children like Joselin could be treated on time and between all of us, we will save more hearts.
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