The Fiji TimesHe’ll journey any distance for daughter’s coronary heart

There are not any limits and bounds in the case of a father’s love for his daughter, particularly when she wants critical medical surgical procedure to save lots of her life.

Mark Whippy travelled over 90 kilometres from his hometown in Levuka together with his 12-year-old daughter, Deborah Whippy, for life-saving surgical procedure.

He stated they had been lucky to be supplied the free-of-charge surgical procedure by a surgical group from Mumbai, India, on the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital in Suva.

He stated his daughter was identified with a coronary heart downside after present process a coronary heart echocardiogram when she was two.

“The docs instructed me that there was one thing like a gap in her coronary heart and he or she would want surgical procedure,” the emotional dad stated.

“We had been referred to this hospital and after a number of interviews we had been knowledgeable there was a bunch of medical surgeons flying into the nation in January and we made the record,” he stated.

Deborah, a Yr 7 scholar of Bureta Major Faculty on Ovalau, wore a giant smile when she was discharged final Saturday. She underwent surgical procedure final Wednesday morning.

“I’m very grateful that this hospital is doing this surgical procedure and free-of-charge for the youngsters right here in Fiji.

“I’m completely satisfied that Deborah efficiently made it out of surgical procedure and in six weeks after she’s recovered, we are going to return to Levuka.”

Mr Whippy urged mother and father and guardians to get their kids screened on the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital.