The baby is celebrating one month of medical miracle. At this time a month ago, doctors from two districts in Maharashtra- Sangli and Mumbai and the State-run 108 ambulance service were working overtime to ensure that this baby born with a rare heart condition got emergency surgery. On May 2, the baby was raced from Sangli to SRCC Children’s Hospital in Mumbai in six ambulances across 380km in 10 hours.

The child seemed healthy at first. A few weeks later, he began turning blue. The parents rushed him to Sangli Civil Hospital. The tiny patient was first diagnosed with d-Transposition of Great Arteries (d-TGA) – where the two main arteries come out from a different heart chamber and the body does not oxygenated blood. In this type of diagnosis, the operation ideally must be done within first 2 weeks of life, otherwise one of the main pumping chamber of the heart starts failing. Due to lack of facilities there, sending the baby to an advanced centre was the only option.