Each year, Tibetan children with congenital heart disease come to Beijing for free treatment.

This year, 20 of them arrived in Beijing last Wednesday and were accepted by the General Hospital of the Chinese Armed Police Forces. The first batch of five children have begun their treatment.

The children have undergone several expert examinations to design specific treatment plans, and doctors are working to figure out the best treatment.

Doctor Ma Dongxing said, "The heart defect is not large, suitable for interventional treatment."

Interventional operations are a kind of minimally invasive surgery. It has less risk and allows patients to quickly recover. But this kind of operation is not suitable for every sick child.

Experts decided 13 children will undergo interventional treatment and five others will have more conventional operations.

Baima Yangjin is one of the 13. She's scheduled to have treatment on Sunday. This is the first time she left home, and she started missing her father, so she decided to call him.

One of the children said to his father, "I will have an operation tomorrow. You do not need to worry about me."

Early on Sunday morning, Yangjin and Guisang Deqing started preparing for the surgery. But nine-year-old Laba Ciren still waits another examination. It is not suitable for him to have an operation right now, so doctors need to run further tests.

Before Yangjin to have the operation, her mom burst into tears right after the doors to the surgery room shut.

Her mother said, "I worry so much about my child, she is so young to have an operation."

But just 45 minutes later, and the surgery is a success.

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