The appeal to help nine-year-old Daksh Zatale, who underwent life-saving MIC-KEY button surgery, has received an encouraging response from Mumbaikars, with donations amounting to Rs 75,000 pouring over three days, after his story was highlighted by mid-day.

The first half of the MIC-KEY surgery was performed on Daksh on Tuesday. “Daksh was running a fever till Monday evening. As his fever subsided we decided to operate. We took him in around 5.15 pm. He was shifted to NICU at 1 am. His surgery went well,” said one of the operating doctors.