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Highlights the urgent need for global and national action, improved funding, and better data collection to address the high burden and neglect of congenital heart diseases in low- and middle-income countries.
We keep bemoaning the challenges, and the sufferings, attendant to congenital heart diseases (CHDs) in low-and middle-income countries (LMICs); unfortunately, not willing to address them by any meaningful remedial actions.United Nation's laudable initiatives on Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted in 2015, to eradicate preventable deaths in children less than 5 years of age, and to reduce premature deaths from non-communicable diseases by onethird by 2030, seem destined to fail as CHD mortality has not gained enough attention from either the governments, or the non-government stakeholders.CHDs are a significant public health challenge worldwide, more so in LMICs, but regrettably have been neglected in the global health agenda, as applied to LMICs.Just as when outcomes have improved
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