A seven-month-old baby with a critical heart condition was successfully transferred to Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok for emergency life-saving surgery after showing signs of severe distress and requiring a ventilator. The infant’s journey from the Nong Khai border region included bypassing the city of Udon Thani via Mittraphap Road and onward through Khon Kaen to the capital.
Today, at 1.20pm, the young child, a boy of only seven months, arrived at Chulalongkorn Hospital. He had been suffering from a severe heart defect known as a leak in the lower chambers of the heart. The medical condition had turned the child’s complexion to a worrying shade of blue, indicating oxygen deprivation, and necessitated the use of a ventilator to aid his breathing.
The transfer from the northeastern border province of Nong Khai was a race against time. Starting at 7.30am earlier that day,…
