Public Agenda (Accra)
Ama Achiaa Amankwah
8 November 2007
Five- year old Grace Tetteh who was confirmed by the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCC) to have been born with a hole-in-heart, popularly called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), has been miraculously healed.
A year ago, when her parents made an appeal to the general public and philanthropists through Public Agenda to support their daughter financially undergo an open-heart operation to close a hole in her heart, she was told her condition was affecting her health.
But after soliciting for funds and presenting it to the NCC for the surgery to be performed, the hole can no longer be found. Miraculously, the girl is not on any medication even though she has been visiting the Cardio Centre for a year now.
Speaking to Public Agenda, Mr. Joseph Tetteh, father of Grace said, "We went to the hospital just last week and were asked to report in six months time after we had earlier been told to go and report in six month's time. In all she has been under examination for one year now and the doctors say they can't find anything", an elated Tetteh told Public Agenda.
Grace Serwah Agyemang, the girl's grandmother who is a petty trader at Teshie in Accra, last year told this newspaper that her daughter had to drop from school due to the worsening heart condition, which was detected in December 2005 after several visits to the hospital.
In May last year when Public Agenda published the appeal, a letter from the National Cardiothoracic Centre and signed by Dr. M. Tamatey, for Dr. L Sereboe confirmed that the girl was born with a hole-in-heart, popularly called Ventricular Septal Defect (VSD), which is affecting her health and would require an open-heart operation to close the hole.
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