{"id":102652,"date":"2024-11-18T15:03:11","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:03:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2024\/11\/18\/27-children-receive-free-heart-surgeries-procedures-at-mp-shah\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T15:03:11","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T15:03:11","slug":"27-children-receive-free-heart-surgeries-procedures-at-mp-shah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/27-children-receive-free-heart-surgeries-procedures-at-mp-shah\/","title":{"rendered":"27 children receive free heart surgeries, procedures at MP Shah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Each year, at least 6,000 newborn babies are born with heart conditions in the country.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This alarming statistic came to light during an open-heart surgery event at MP Shah Hospital in Nairobi, where 19 babies underwent life-saving surgeries, and eight others received device closure procedures\u2014all at no cost to the families.<\/p>\n<p>Among the beneficiaries were Betty Chepwogen from Kericho County and Caroline Kaigua from Meru County, whose children were among those treated.<\/p>\n<p>A team of local and international cardiologists successfully performed the procedures, providing them with a chance at survival.<\/p>\n<p><p class=\"responsive-video-wrap clr\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"19 babies receive free heart surgery at MP Shah Hospital\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BaX2eICbJSM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/27-children-receive-free-heart-surgeries-procedures-at-mp-shah\/\">27 children receive free heart surgeries, procedures at MP Shah<\/a> first appeared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/27-children-receive-free-heart-surgeries-procedures-at-mp-shah\/\">27 children receive free heart surgeries, procedures at MP Shah<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Each year, at least 6,000 newborn babies are born with heart conditions in the country. This alarming statistic came to light during an open-heart surgery event at MP Shah Hospital in Nairobi, where 19 babies underwent life-saving surgeries, and eight others received device closure procedures\u2014all at no cost to the families. Among the beneficiaries were [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-102652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}