50-Day-Old Beats Covid And A Rare Congenital Heart Disease

Kolkata: He was just 27 days old when diagnosed with rare congenital heart disease. Even as doctors prepared to operate, came the next bad news — he was also Covid-positive. But the infant, now 50 days old, has managed to beat both.

- Sumati.Yengkhom

For Arup and Jaba Chandra, the joy of becoming parents was cruelly tempered just days before their baby turned a month old when they found he had obstructed cardiac TAPVC (Total Anomalous Pulmonary Venous Connection), a rare condition affecting less than 1 in 10,000 babies. The residents of Katwa in Burdwan had noticed that the baby was gasping for breath. The anxious parents rushed the boy — named Kian — to a government hospital in Burdwan, which asked them to go to Kolkata.