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A total of 51 children afflicted by congenital heart disease in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region headed on Monday to Beijing, where they will receive free surgery sponsored by a charity organization.These children, coming from a mixed ethnicity including Han, Uygur, Kazakh, Hui,
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The China Charity Federation found the children by asking qualified families in the region to sign up for a program called Xinlei, initiated by the Beijing-based organization.All the children are aged between 4 and 12 years old and have heart problems, including isolated atrial septal defect and pulmonary stenosis.
They were born to poverty-stricken families in remote areas of Xinjiang.Ma Jiamin, a 12-year-old girl from Shihezi city,
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"I often get cold and fever,
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China has about 4 million people suffering from congenital heart disease and the number is increasing by 150,
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The program has already helped more than a dozen children afflicted by congenital heart defects receive free treatment.The medical cost, which amounts to at least 8,000 yuan ($1,
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To address the problem, some provinces, including Qinghai and Fujian, launched pilot projects last year to offer financial help to children born in rural families who are afflicted by congenital heart disease or leukemia,
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