Emilia was born in September 2023 to a happy Ukrainian family in the Lviv region.

But on the very first day, her parents’ joy was overshadowed by the results of her first medical examination: the child was diagnosed with an abnormal heart murmur. The mother became worried and decided to find out about all the possible threats to her daughter’s life. First, they went to the Zhovkva hospital for a checkup, where doctors suspected a defect and directed her to Lviv. There, the congenital heart defect was confirmed for sure.

A month and a half later, at a second consultation, they advised us to start looking for a cardiac surgeon. It is important to have such an operation done before the child is 6 months old.

💬 “The doctor recommended several surgeons, including Oleksandr Babyliak. Our pediatrician from Zhovkva hospital said at the first medical check-up: if you need surgery, you should only come to Oleksandr Bablyak. I read all the reviews of the doctors on the list and decided to call Dobrobut,” says Nadiya, the girl’s mother.
The family was not able to pay for such a surgery on their own. The managers of the cardiac surgery hospital told the parents that the Dobrobut Foundation, a charity organization that takes care of children with congenital heart disease, would help them.
On January 23, cardiac surgeon Oleksandr Babliak successfully performed minimally invasive heart surgery to close a ventricular septal defect for a four-month-old baby.
On January 26, healthy Emilia and her parents returned home, where her sisters were waiting for her.
💬 With tears in her eyes, her mother says: “We are sincerely grateful to Oleksandr Bablyak for performing the surgery for our child. Emilia had a large opening, but the operation went well. Thanks to the nurses who were so attentive to us, paid a lot of attention to the child, constantly making sure everything was fine. My breast milk has even recovered and I can again feed my daughter. We are grateful to the Foundation, which helps such small children grow up healthy. Now everything will be fine with us.”
We express our gratitude to philanthropist Mariya Didkovska for funding Emilia’s cardiac surgery. Her heart has been saved and now the girl will be able to grow and develop fully.