Tibetan Flown For Operation
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AUCKLAND, Man* 28. Tsering Topgyal, a 12-year-old Tibetan boy, will be flown to New Zealand by the Save the Children Fund next week to have a heart operation in Green Lane Hospital. Tsetop, as he is called, is now in the Tibetan Homes Foundation in Mussoorie, a hill station and sanitorium in North India. The operation Tsetop needs is understood to be the replacement of his aortic valve by one taken from a dead person.
A letter from the Save the Children Fund nurse. Miss Joan Ariel, to S.C.F. headquarters in London, says: “We have a boy here called Tsetop who is likely to die within the next few months if he does not have a heart operation. “We are told it is quite impossible for the child to be operated on in India.
“It has been suggested that the place where he would have the best chance is New Zealand.” Tsetop is expected to arrive at Whenuapai. wearing his full Tibetan dress, on Tuesday night. An interpreter will come with him. Because he is not a New Zealand citizen Tsetop’s medical expenses will be about £6 daily while he is in hospital. These will be paid by the New Zealand Save the Children Fund.
Tsetop’s parents are road workers in Kulu, in the Himalayas. He has one sisrter.
A RESERVE price plan for the marketing of Australia’s wool clip would be “out in the open” by the middle of this week, the chairman of the Wool Industry Conference, Dr. J. Melville, said in Adelaide.
Tibetan Flown For Operation
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30711, 29 March 1965, Page 16
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