Open heart Surgery for 7-Day-Old Aayansh Avyaan Prasad

URGENT APPEAL: A 7-Day-Old Baby Boy Fighting for His Life

Born on 28 October 2026 at CWM Hospital, the baby of Achal Chand came into this world early, at 36 weeks, by emergency caesarean.

Within minutes, doctors saw that something was wrong. He was diagnosed with Transposition of the Great Arteries, a serious heart condition in which the two main arteries of his heart are switched. Because of it, his body cannot get the oxygen it needs. He also has high blood pressure in his lungs.

Since birth, this little fighter has been in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit on a ventilator. When he was just 2 days old, his parents arranged for a special balloon device to be brought into Fiji. Doctors used it to carry out an emergency heart procedure, guided online by a paediatric heart specialist from Starship Hospital in New Zealand.

That procedure bought him time, but it is not a cure.

He now needs open-heart surgery at a specialist cardiac centre overseas. That surgery is not available in Fiji, and it must happen soon.

His parents are doing everything they can, but the cost of overseas surgery, medical transfer and care is far beyond what one family can manage alone.

Goal: NZD $120,000 (approx. FJD $157,000)

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