Christmas lights on the streets of London are now blinking in time with the heartbeat of the baby

An amazingly touching Christmas story happened in London, where doctors decided to make an unusual gift to a little boy with a heart defect. And now all the lights that decorate the city for Christmas blink exclusively in the rhythm of the child’s heartbeat.

Billy Hopkin, 2, lives in central London in the West End. He is the patient of the heart clinic and the ward of the Tiny Tickers charity that helps families raising children with various heart abnormalities and defects.

The fact that the boy will be born with a sore heart, his mom and dad learned long before his birth, an ultrasound scan during pregnancy showed abnormalities in the structure of the children's heart. The boy was born and immediately he had to undergo severe heart surgery, which lasted almost 15 hours.

He spent almost all his life from birth to two years in hospitals, and this Christmas is the first one he will meet at home. In order for this day to be remembered by him for the rest of his life, the doctors and employees of the charity foundation decided to make a gift that none of the children in the world had previously received make the city shine in the rhythm of the heart of the little town dweller.

They made a special pulse recorder, which is worn on the finger. The recorder takes the current heartbeat and sends the data to a computer that regulates the street lighting in London. It took quite a bit of technical improvements and the approval of the city hall - and the lights in the city start blinking with the same frequency as Billy's heart beats.

With their action, London doctors decided not only to please the baby, whose life is now safe, but also to draw the attention of the residents of the British capital to thousands of babies with heart defects who are now waiting for help. Christmas is the best time to share the warmth of your soul and provide all possible assistance to those who need it..