By Dr Amal El-Sisi | Prof of Pediatric Cardiology Cairo University
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 six 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 other NGOs. We have raised 64K USD in Heart2Heart Phase 5. We will start next week in Upper Egypt, followed by Cairo and Alexandria. With your generous support we have cured 140 children so far. Still we have more to do. So we are extremely grateful to our supporters. 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. Those of you who wish more information on the patients please email me: elsisi96@yahoo.com. We will continue our work we have very long waiting lists. Please continue to donate, your donations are mandatory.
With your help we will also start Heart2Heart Uganda who are desperate for our expertise and they have endless patients queos, So again please continue to doanate
Yours
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