KABUL says some 5,000 children with a hole in the heart have been treated during the past six years, but more than 5000 children with the birth defect need treatment.
The society spokesperson, Miram Sadaqat, told Pajhwok Afghan News her organization had diagnosed and registered more than 10,000 children having ventricular septal defects (VSDs) during the past six years.
Of them, 5000 had received free treatment funded by the Red Crescent Society and most of them received treatment in foreign countries, mostly in India . . .
