Heart2heart project overview.

Egypt has roughly 3 million children born annually; 35’000 with CHD; 17’000 need intervention in the first 5 years of life
•10’000 will need surgery and 7’000 will need catheters •The Government of Egypt (GOE) sponsors surgeries only; due to high catheter cost; yet only 3’000 cases  are conducted through Government run hospitals.
RC of El Tahrir has sponsored 40 cases over the course of the last 2 years, in Cairo and Beni Sueif. It intends Heart2Heart as one of its sustainable development projects spanning from 2017-2020 in Upper Egypt.
•In the Rotary year 2017-2018 RC of El Tahrir completed 28 cases •In the first quarter of Rotary year 2018-2019 RC of El Tahrir completed 22 cases with the aim to complete another 50 by the end of Rotary year 2019 •RC of El Tahrir’s target for 2019-2020 is to complete an additional 50 cases. 
Procuring specialized early detection equipment for the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) at Aboul'

Thankfully, most of these children can lead a normal and healthy life with timely intervention. So, we need to diagnose these problems early and treat them timely to help the little hearts beat healthy.

For more information check out the link below. Bernie

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