Healthcare · Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
Arjun & Dev, 9 · 2025
“The doctor came to our school. If she hadn't, we would have waited until it was too late.”
— Arjun & Dev
Arjun had been getting 'fevers' for a year. Each time, his parents bought tablets from the local chemist and waited for them to pass. He grew thinner and quieter, and his teachers assumed he was just a shy child.
At a routine health camp our mobile clinic runs at his school, Dr. Meera noticed a heart murmur. Tests confirmed rheumatic heart disease — a condition that, untreated, quietly damages the heart's valves.
We arranged treatment through our partner hospital, covered the family's travel and medicines, and our community health worker now visits every month to make sure Arjun gets his preventive injections. He has put on four kilos. He is no longer quiet.
