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British woman undergoes heart surgery in India
London:
A 67-year-old British woman has successfully undergone heart surgery
in New Delhi after her country's Health Department - NHS - failed to find
a solution for her ailment - a blocked aorta which restricted circulation,
and eventually hampered her walking and other bodily movements. The British
woman patient waited two years for NHS heart surgery and was then told
that it had been cancelled. She was asked to wait for another six months.
Crippled, and in agony, she was unable to face a further delay, so, she
decided to spend 5000 pounds (more than four lakh rupees) to fly to New
Delhi and get a successful operation. Mavis, a retired wages clerk and
a mother of three, is now hale and hearty, and back in her Wolverhampton
home, after the heart surgery in Delhi. "I'm 100 per cent fit now and
can walk anywhere. If you're on an NHS waiting list you can wait forever
for the surgery," The Sun quoted the British woman patient as saying.
-Nov
21, 2005
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