Last week Mohammed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Humanitarian and Charity Est. and Dubai Health Authority partnered with Fortis Healthcare Mumbai to fund 132 surgeries for free. While the event was going on the doctors made an interesting observation- 'Babies with Down's Syndrome (DS) have heart defects.' DS or Trisomy 21 is a medical condition wherein there is an extra genetic material present in chromosome 21- which causes cognitive and growth delays. It is unclear why Trisomy 21 occurs but there are certain scenarios that increase the risk of carrying a child with DS said Dr Asmita Mahajan consultant neonatologist and paediatrician SL Raheja