Officials: We introduced more than 3,000 children with a hole in the heart for treatment

Officials of the Afghan Red Crescent Society have announced the registration of more than 3,000 children with a hole in the heart in the past one year in the country.

The officials of this institution have said that more than 2400 of these children have been sent to hospitals in the country and the rest have been sent abroad for treatment.

Mudassar Hamraz, the spokesman of the Afghan Red Crescent Society, says: “3,225 children with heart holes have been registered, of which 2,445 have been referred to hospitals in the country for treatment.”

Nine-month-old Ahmed, who had a hole in his heart, was brought to Kabul from Ghazni Province. His family says that Ahmed is doing better now after being referred and operated on in a private hospital.

Mahmoud, Ahmad’s father, says: “We came from Ghazni province, then we went to the Cure hospital. Later on, it was found out from the echocardiography that he had a hole in the heart, and I went to the Red Crescent Society, and he again introduced us to this hospital. He has been operated on and is doing well. “

Altaf, one of the doctors in Kabul, said about why children are more often affected by a hole in the heart: “In the occurrence of heart hole disease, family marriages that take place between maternal uncles and aunts, the use of self-help drugs, obesity, and the use of tobacco And having a family history of heart perforation has an effect.”

Based on the statements of officials in the Afghan Red Crescent Society, the process of treating each patient with a hole in the heart requires 60,000 to 200,000 Afghanis.