An infant who was born with a rare lung disease that pushed the heart and food pipe to the right side of her body, underwent a life-saving procedure, right after her birth. She was only one hour old, weighing 2.5 kilos, when the procedure helped shift back the organs to their normal positions.

On May 21, the baby was born through normal delivery at SRV Mamata Hospital in Dombivli. But, within an hour after her birth, she developed respiratory problems. Diagnosis showed that her respiratory rate was more than 50 breaths per minute, hence she was immediately shifted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). X-ray revealed that the left side of the lung had collapsed due to which she was having difficulty breathing and her blood pressure was decreasing. She was diagnosed with pneumothorax, a rare lung disease where air gets collected between the lung and the chest wall, and this happens due to air leaking out of the lung.