Bloom To Life

Bloom to life is a US-based humanitarian organization formed in July 2015 to save the lives of young children from India with Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). Financial assistance will be provided to the underprivileged children and their parents who don’t have the resources to pay for their child’s Heart surgery. Over the last 7 years, we have assisted in the successful completion of 45+ underprivileged children’s Heart surgeries in India and “saved their lives”. We are proud to say 100% of your donation funds the children’s heart surgeries.

Bloom To Life has tied up with the best hospitals and top Pediatric Cardiology surgeons in India to do the heart surgeries. Most of our surgeries are done in hospitals like AIMS, Apollo, MIOT & Narayana Hrudayalaya.

Heart is the center of the universe in the human body. No human body can function without a HEART. Heart surgeries carry much higher risk than any other operation. There is always a risk to life. Without the operation they will not survive. Pediatric cardiac heart surgeries are extremely complex.

Cardiac surgery in a child's heart is a major event in the life of the child and the entire family. They will never forget the doctors & the people who helped with the surgery. The events happening in the family are always described in the future as Before the Heart operation & After the Heart operation.

Congenital heart disease (CHD) is the world’s most common major birth defect, affecting one in every 120 children. The situation is particularly grim in India: with a population of more than 1.21 billion and a high birth rate, more than 90 percent of CHDs go undiagnosed and only 10 percent of children who are actually diagnosed receive the necessary treatment. Unfortunately, access to high quality pediatric cardiac care is problematic in India due to a shortage of trained professionals to treat children with CHDs and because many people cannot afford treatment.

In India, up to 270,000 infants (age <1 year) are born with CHDs and each
year an additional 37,000 children are diagnosed. Unfortunately, a majority of children living with CHDs in the poorer regions of India escape detection and diagnosis. Rheumatic fever and resultant rheumatic heart disease (RHD) also affect children in developing regions of the world, where limited access to primary health care, overcrowding, unhygienic living conditions and low socio-economic status contribute to its high prevalence. The prevalence of RHD in all age groups in India is estimated to be 1.5-2/1000, which suggests there are between 2-2.5 million patients with RHD in the country.