Heart2Heart-Children with Congenital Heart Defects

My Dear Donors,

First I would like to thank you all for your generous contrbutions to help poor children with congenital heart defects  over the past three years. I would like to thank all medical staff who are volunteering their time and expertise to help children with heart conditions in remote areas of Egypt like Upper Egypt (Sohag and Assiut and Beni Suef). Unfortunately economic status in Egypt is getting disasterous with the EGP losing more than half of its value. It is soaring expensive for 90% of the population to make ends meet. Almost 40% of the poplulation earn less than one USD a day according the World Bank reports on Egypt. The funds from yourselves are helping those poor children as the government can not cope with the needs. Help from NGO and society members is mandatory. GlobalGiving donations are added to Heart to Heart project Global Grant funds from Rotary International and Rotary clubs reaching 76K USD in Heart2Heart Phase 4. We are waiting for the funds to be transferred to us following the final approval step. We expect to treat 30 patients by the end of Jan 2024. We also had additional donations to yours from other donors Sona El Kher Foundation. We have treated further 10 patients with these funds since last report with average cost around 2600-2800 USD per patient.  These children suffered from either holes in their hearts or narrowing of vessels or valves. They had non-invasive catheter procedures to close the holes using state of the art recent technology devices or balloon dilate the stenotic valves or vessels. The consumables eg (devices, balloons stents ... etc) are extremely expensive and consume 80% of the budget allocated to each patient averaging 2200 USD per device. The rest is paid to the hospital as fees. All doctors are volunteers. The advantages of such state of the art technique is that patients go home the next day completely cured. No added risk of ICU stay, or blood transfusions and no disfiguering scars. I would like to attach all the patients data however this is against GlobalGiving reporting policy despite having all relevant consents. Those of you who wish nore information on the patients please email me: elsisi96@yahoo.com. We will continue our work we have very long waiting lists. Egypt is a country of 110 million with high birth rate. The Governement of Egypt is still incapable of funding all the operations needed. We are dependant on your cintinued giving. Please continue to donate, your donations are mandatory.

Yours Dr Amal El-Sisi Prof of Pediatric Cardiology Cairo University

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