18/12/2025
9-year-old Burhan Malik from Baramulla, Kashmir, son of a farmer unable to afford treatment for his critical heart condition involving two aortic blocks that gave him just two years to live, received a lifeline through the Indian Army's Operation Sadbhavna, where the Dagger Division and Chinar Corps coordinated his first-ever train journey to Delhi's Army Hospital (Research & Referral), partnering with the Indrani Balan Foundation for funding and logistics as his school run by the Army flagged the emergency.
Army pediatric cardiologists successfully performed a rare, high-risk transcatheter procedure to remove the life-threatening blockages, restoring normal blood flow to his organs and heart, allowing the cheerful boy to return home dreaming of one day joining the forces himself, with his grateful mother praising the seamless empathy that turned despair into hope.
