Surgeon comforting toddler before heart surgery will melt your heart

Even grown-ups feel jittery when they find out that they have to undergo a major operation, so imagine how tough it would be for a child to cope with such a scary situation. So it wasn't surprising when a two-year-old girl in a Chinese hospital broke down as she was waiting to have her surgery done. The girl had a heart condition for which she was admitted at a hospital in Zheijiang, eastern China, on the the 16th of September, according to the People's Daily Online.

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So, a male surgeon stepped in to comfort the terrified little girl by placing her on his lap and playing her favourite cartoons on his mobile phone. This eventually calmed down the toddler and made it easier for the doctors to administer the anaesthetics need to put the girl to sleep. Photos of the heart-warming gesture, which are taken by an anaesthetist and shared on Chinese social media websites quickly went viral.

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The surgeon, Shi Zhuo, who is the Deputy Director of Cardiac Surgery at the children's section of Zhejiang University Hospital humbly isnisted that such situations often occur in the operation theatre and that other staff have also comforted children in the past. He said, "As parents, we understand that the children are scared and can appreciate the worry of the family,", as reported in the Daily Mail. Fortunately the girl's operation was successful and she is expected to be discharged from the hospital by September 22.