Health Matters: Lily, Aged 2 Denied Heart Surgery Seven Times

Birmingham Post › March 16, 2006

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A seriously ill two-year-old girl has been denied urgent surgery by a Birmingham hospital seven times in the past month.

Lily Cater has a rare heart defect - pulmonary atresia - which is a life-threatening condition linked to the under-development of the heart, which as a result has to work harder to pump blood around her body. However Lily, who also has a hole in her heart, is not expected to reach the age of five if she does not have the vital surgery.

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Health Matters: Lily, Aged 2 Denied Heart Surgery Seven Times

Mother-of-four Michala Cater, of Bradford, West Yorkshire, initially too...

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