... Returning mother grateful after child’s heart surgery
SHELLY-ANN HARRIOTT, mother of two-year-old Treshel Harriott, recently returned to Jamaica after her child’s successful heart surgery.
“I’m really grateful for the opportunity. It was a very stressful situation. I didn’t know what exactly was going to happen in the space of time before she did the surgery. I do appreciate everything that the doctors did here at the Bustamante Hospital for Children (BHC) because there was a long list of children, but my baby got the chance to do this surgery. I am really grateful,” she said.
Dr Sharonne Forrester, paediatric cardiologist at the BHC, said the hospital is constantly working hard to ensure that every child lives an abundant life.
TREAT WELL
“The patients who have gone before and are back are doing well. The parents said that they were treated well over there (the Cayman Islands). The ones to go have what we call congenital heart disease. It means that they were born with a congenital heart defect. Most of these children are symptomatic of their heart defect and so their quality of life is not as it should be, and what this surgery will afford them is to have a better quality of life.”
Both Dr Christopher Tufton, minister of health, and Dr Chandy Abraham, chief executive officer at the Health City Hospital, have expressed a desire to do more collaborations in the future.