In Nigeria, almost 60,000 children are born every year with heart diseases. Now, experts in this report by Sade Oguntola, help awaits such children in many Nigerian hospitals, including the Obafemi Awolowo University Teaching Hospital Complex, Ile Ife.
Araoluwa, a 10-month-old baby was diagnosed with a hole in her heart at two months when she developed catarrh and the parents took her to Ekiti State Teaching Hospital.
“It was catarrh that made us take her to the hospital, but the doctor who examined her said there was some murmuring in her breathing,” said Araoluwa’s mother.
The mother had also noticed her profuse sweating each time she was breastfeeding and her subsequent weakness….
Source: Nigerian Tribune
