Give change on free healthy life!

Collection of money is stopped. Actual information is accommodated in the blog of the project. 8-year-old Valeria does acutely need for help. Her heart is constantly enlarged. All her life the little girl lives on medical prescriptions: she is not allowed to run, to dance, she even drinks water only at scheduled times and in limited quantities. In addition, she is forced to take regularly medication up to fifteen pills a day, several times a year to pass the consultative examinations at clinics. But now her life is hanging by a single thread.

The girl has these heart problems since five months age. Year after year the mother did not lose hope that the treatment will ease her daughter health condition. In June Valeria with her mother went to Kyiv on routine examination. The doctors said that the child's heart loses its elasticity and enlarges. So it can not cope with its function, such situation being really life-threatening. Pills do not contribute to the improvement. And the medications quantity increasing is undesirable as the others organs wil suffer. Therefore, a surgical intrusionis required, namely the damaged organ transplantation.

A clinic in India is ready to carry out such a complex operation, still it takes considerable money amount. 95 thousand US dollars are needed to save Lera’s life. And the mom is raising her daughter alone, the father does not help. When doctors stressed the need for urgent surgery and they became aware of its cost, Lera’s mother was stunned. Even with the help of their relatives, friends and acquaintances they can collect only a little part thereof. The Ministry of Public Health of Ukraine provides assistance if the child is in critical condition, but the mother can not wait for until her daughter health codition deteriorates to critical, as then her travel to India will be impossible.

Little Lera is really passioned with desire to dance, to run a race with other children. She wants to become a doctor,when growed and also to bear numerous grandchildren for her mom and grandmother. She does not understand why her relatives do cry. But Lera’s mother hopes her daughter dreams come true and to find those caring people capable to help saving her little girl’s life.

Name: Budyachenko Valeria Andreevna, 10 October 2007

The city: Odessa

Diagnosis: Dilated cardiomyopathy with moderate reduced left ventricular systolic function. Partly mitral insufficiency. CH IIA.