Corentyne sisters in life-saving heart surgeries at Balwant Singh Hospital

By Staff Editor On In Guyana News |
Five year old Tiana Bissoondyal (right bed) and her sister Gayona Bissoondyal with their mother Moushimi (standing at left) and grandmother Gaitree Balgobin.
Five year old Tiana Bissoondyal (right bed) and her sister Gayona Bissoondyal with their mother Moushimi (standing at left) and grandmother Gaitree Balgobin.

Number 65 Village sisters Tiana and Gayona Bissoondyal, each born with a hole in the heart and a slim chance of getting overseas for life-saving surgery, are the first successes of paediatric heart surgeries now being provided at the Dr. Balwant Singh Hospital.

With the hospital’s introduction of its paediatric heart services, children with heart ailments, like Tiana 3, and Gayona, 5, may no longer have to travel out of Guyana for heart surgery.

“Dr. Balwant