Save the Marchuk Milana's heart

The little girl Milana needs our help. The baby has a congenital heart disease, and now there is a struggle for her life and future. Milana urgently needs to have an endovascular operation using a heart implant, which can correct a heart defect and enable the child to live.

The operation will be carried out for free at the Amosov National Institute, but for this it is necessary to purchase the implant itself, which costs a huge amount of money. Parents of the girl cannot afford rescue of the daughter. That is why we appeal to all those who care to help save the Milana's heart!

For the Milana's life parents are fighting since birth. She is only one and a half years old, but even in the hospital, her parents learned about such a diagnosis as congenital heart disease (open ductus arteriosus). Time is divided into before and after. Perhaps this diagnosis sounds not so scary, but the consequences for the girl can be fatal. Due to the sudden difference in pressure in the ventricles of the heart, something irreparable can happen. The girl’s heart must be saved urgently.

From the first days of life, doctors discovered a heart murmur and were diagnosed with open ductus arteriosus. Usually in children during the first year of life, this hole can close naturally, but in Milana it not only does not close, but, on the contrary, increases. Over 5 months, the hole increased from 2 to 3.5 mm. But despite this, Milanka is also constantly worried about atopic dermatitis. Rashes on the body of the girl are constantly trying to tear off, and they bake and itch, so Milana often cries, although her parents and doctors are trying in every way to alleviate the course of the disease. And Milana can neither cry nor scream, because it is directly related to her heart defect - the child begins to turn blue, even from slight stress.

The family still hoped that the hole would close itself. But when the parents found out that the hole was enlarging and an operation was needed, Milana's father immediately decided that he would go abroad to earn some of the necessary funds. The family lives in a small village Stepanivka, Sumy region, where it is very difficult to find work. But quarantine changed everything, my father did not leave anywhere. Now time goes against the crumbs. There is no way to find funds in the family, so they turn to you, philanthropists for help.

You can save the Milana's heart now, and it depends only on your goodwill. Support the project even 1 UAH, this will help to collect the necessary amount to save the life of the girl!

Name: Marchuk Milana, 02.08.2018

City: Stepanivka village, Sumy region

Diagnosis: congenital heart disease (open ductus arteriosus)