Nashik, Maharashtra

The following is the confirmed medical status as documented by KIMS Manavata Hospital, Nashik, dated 3/7/2026:

Patient : Devika Gorakshanath Salunke (Female)

Age : 1 Year

Date of Birth : 25 July 2025

Hospital : KIMS Manavata Hospital, Nashik

Treating Doctor : Dr. Lalit G Lawankar, MBBS, DNB (Pediatrics), FNB (Pediatric Cardiology)

Status : Awaiting surgery — PDA Device Closure

Confirmed Diagnosis

• Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA) — 3.8mm, with left to right shunt. A blood vessel that connects two major heart arteries failed to close after birth. Oxygenated blood is being redirected back to the lungs instead of flowing to the body, placing continuous strain on the heart and lungs.

Recommended Treatment

• PDA Device Closure — a minimally invasive cardiac procedure in which a small closure device is delivered through a catheter (thin tube) into the heart to permanently seal the open vessel. No open-heart surgery required.

• Post-operative surgical management — monitoring and supportive care following the procedure

• Medicines, hospital charges, investigation charges, and consultant charges included in the total estimated cost

  Total Estimated Cost : ₹4,00,000/- (Four Lakh Only)

  (Including Surgery (PDA Device Closure),Post-operative Surgical Management,Supportive Care, Medicines & Hospital Charges,Consultant & Investigation Charges)

  Why This Cannot Wait

  A PDA does not resolve on its own once a child is one year old — at this stage, spontaneous closure is no longer expected. Every month the opening remains, the heart and lungs absorb more strain. In time, this leads to pulmonary hypertension (dangerously high pressure in the lung arteries) and eventually irreversible heart damage.

  Devika is one year old. She is at an ideal age for this procedure — old enough to safely undergo it, young enough that no permanent damage has yet occurred. This window needs to be used.

  Gorakshanath drives his cab every day. Dipali manages everything at home. Together, they have navigated the hospital system, the paperwork, the doctors' appointments — all of it — on ₹5,833 a month.

  They have reached the point where everything is in place. The hospital is ready. The surgeon is ready. The procedure that will give Devika a normal, healthy life is waiting.

  Your donation goes directly toward Devika's PDA Device Closure surgery at KIMS Manavata Hospital, Nashik — and toward giving a one-year-old girl the chance to grow up with a heart that works the way it should.

  Please help Devika get her surgery.

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