Thanks to a mutual effort between MOH hospitals, medical staff have been able to save a child less than 10 hours- old weighing 6.6 pounds suffering from (d-TGA ).
Dr. Allam Abu Hamda, the pediatric consultant, confirmed that the child was diagnosed immediately after arriving at Shifa hospital nursery ward.
It was found that the child needs to perform an urgent intervention by making an atrial septal opening by cardiac catheterization to save the baby from eventual death, and must be conducted within few hours, as a result, saturation began to stabilize and improve from 70% to 90%.