IMPHAL May 3: As a part of its ongoing community service under the `heart to heart`™ project, the Rotary Club of Imphal sent two children suffering from congenital heart disease to Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Delhi for open heart surgeries today.
A release of the club has identified as Bleson Kom, 9, s/o Shankup Kom of Sagang village, Churachandpur and N Preeti Devi, 3, d/o N Sailendo Singh of Kakching Khullen.
The two children who were accompanied by their parents were seen off at the Imphal airport by the club`™s president, rotarian Dr M Madhumangal Singh and its public relations chairman, rotarian W Kened Kumar, it added.
In all the club has facilitated open heart surgeries to 33 children, belonging to families below poverty line, who were born with congenital heart disease or holes in their hearts, stated the release.
