“To look at the faces of parents of children with congenital heart defects changing from nervousness and fear to relief and then joy is worth more than scoring a double century,” said veteran cricketer Sunil Gavaskar on Saturday at a charity dinner hosted by Rotary Club of Bangalore, Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevini Hospitals, and Heart to Heart Foundation in Bengaluru.
The charity dinner was hosted to enable free pediatric heart surgeries at Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevini Hospitals.
“In India, more than 3,00,000 children are born with congenital heart defects annually. Apart from being a devotee of Satya Sai Baba, the fact that these surgeries would give a second chance to the children who could go on to live very productive lives until 70 – 80 years got me involved in this,” said Mr. Gavaskar, who also chairs the Heart to Heart Foundation, which is dedicated to saving the lives of children born with congenital heart defects.
