Sri Lanka, Oct. 23 -- A team of foreign specialist doctors from the "Take Heart Mercy Mission" has undertaken a programme of free heart surgeries for 13 Sri Lankan children with highly complex heart conditions at the Cardiothoracic Surgery Unit of the Karapitiya Teaching Hospital in Galle.Find Family Lawyer

The Health Ministry stressed that the procedures, which are being carried out with the support of local professionals, are difficult to perform in Sri Lanka.

Visiting the hospital yesterday (22) to observe the medical work, Health Deputy Minister Dr.Hansaka Wijemuni said that, until now, Sri Lanka had been able to offer only a diagnosis for such severe heart conditions. Timely surgery, he said, changes the future not only of the chil...