A Rotary charity says it is thrilled at the public response to a call for donations to bring a gravely ill two-month-old girl from Timor Leste to Sydney for help.
Baby Maria Soares needs life-saving surgery for a hole in the heart that makes it hard for her to breathe or gain weight.
Lloyd Roever, of Reaching Overseas with Medical Aid for Children, says Dili officials are trying to get her to Sydney next week.
Mr Roever says the group is trying to organise for her treatment in Australia, as well as treatment for four more children in coming months.
"These sorts of children, in Timor and the Solomons and Fiji, they just don't have the medical treatment capabilities.
"Now, while our doctors and surgeons and cardiologists do go up there and visit these centres, they can't perform the operations up there because even if they've got a hospital, they don't have the intensive care facilities that the children need."
Surgeons in Sydney will operate on Maria Soares for free.