Johor boy gets life-changing heart surgery


Ahmad Syareef has a new lease on life and dreams of becoming a doctor.

BORN with a hole in his heart, Ahmad Syareef Abdullah, eight, was constantly fatigued and suffered occasional chest pains.

He had been living with a Subaortic Ventricular Septal Defect and needed to go to the hospital twice a year.

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