The parents of 10-months-old Shrushti Shelar spend each day in growing anxiety, as they are aware that the clock is ticking away for their daughter. The Nashik-based couple was heartbroken when Shrushti was diagnosed with a rare congenital heart defect prior to delivery. The young girl has been battling for life against aortic atresia with hypoplastic ascending aorta. It is a birth defect because of which there is no opening of the aortic valve into the aorta, which distributes purified blood to all parts of the body.

Shrushti Shelar needs to undergo the operation as soon as possible