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Wang Mang, age 8, from Anhui province in China arrived in Toronto to have life-saving heart surgery at the Hospital for Sick Children in 2004. He had a serious congenital heart defect called c-TGA, or transposition of the great arteries. Without surgery, he would have died before he reached adulthood. He is from a poor family in China. His father died of cancer two years ago and left two of them: his mother and him. His mother had no job and spent all their money trying to find a cure of his congenital heart defect in China but failed because they can’t afford it and it is hard to find a hospital to do that kind of surgery. Then in early 2004 they were introduced to the Rotary Gift of Life program by someone who had a connection with it in China and this organization accepted them for the surgery in Toronto. The cost of the surgery was $60,000. Half of this was paid for by the Herbie Fund for international patients at the Hospital for Sick Children and the other half by the Rotary Gift of Life program.
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