22-day-old Burmese boy Nai Minton is the first son of his mother Waen and father Chai. They live in a rented house at 111/1, Village 3, Bang Ya Phraek Subdistrict, Mueang District, Samut Sakhon Province.
Mother Waen said that she has been working at a canned fish factory in Muang Mai, Mahachai, Samut Sakhon Province for 2 years. She works from Monday to Saturday and earns 1,600 baht. She has Sundays off, but the work is very hard because she has to work from 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 a.m. the next day.
… The doctor did not say anything unusual about the baby.
When the baby was born, he weighed 2,800 kilograms. He was cyanotic, breathing heavily, and could not suck milk on his own because his milk would turn cyanotic. He had to be fed through a tube and given oxygen all the time. Srivichai Hospital 5 then sent him to Kasemrad Prachachuen Hospital. The cardiologist performed an echo and found that the baby had severe cyanotic heart disease that required emergency surgery and two surgeries. The first surgery was to improve blood circulation and the second surgery would be done when the baby was about 2-3 years old and weighed about 12 kilograms or more.
The mother said that at that time, she did not think about having surgery because she was afraid that her baby would not recover. Most importantly, she did not have the money to treat the baby. However, the doctor said that if she did not have surgery, the baby would have to work harder and die. As for the expenses, she did not have to pay because the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Foundation would be responsible for the expenses. The mother thought for a long time before deciding to have the surgery because she thought that if she did not have the surgery, the baby would not survive. The baby had the first surgery on August 12, 2009. After the surgery, the baby’s condition improved and when he cried, his body was no longer cyanotic. She was trained to suckle on her own without having to feed through a tube and underwent a second surgery on August 27, 2012. Her condition gradually improved and she was able to return to her normal life as a child.