(Trinidad Guardian) Thanks to help from the public, baby Ricardo Vijay has a bright future. The T&T Guardian published Ricardo’s story on March 16, after his mother, Daramdai Vijay, appealed for help to raise TT$25,000 needed for surgery to give him a normal life.
Ricardo was diagnosed with Dandy-Walker syndrome, a congenital brain malformation involving the cerebellum and the fluids around it. His mother, a Guyanese, bought Ricardo to Trinidad for medical help. He desperately needed surgery to implant a tube from his skull to his stomach to safely drain the fluid.
The surgery could only be performed at the Community Seventh Day Adventist Hospital, Cocorite for TT$25,000. A few days ago,
