Showing posts with label Save a Child's Heart. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Save a Child's Heart. Show all posts

Thursday, April 9, 2009

Israel to treat Nigerian children with heart diseases

"The Israeli Embassy in Nigeria has commenced a programme that would ensure that poor Nigerian children with heart diseases are flown to Israel for treatment. Speaking to journalists in Abuja on Wednesday, the Israeli Ambassador to Nigeria, Mr. Moshe Ram, said the children would be identified and attended to on a case-by-case basis within the limits of the embassy's resources. He said the embassy would be working with an Israeli-based foundation, Save A Child's Heart, which had already helped over 2,000 children with heart diseases from 30 countries."

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Gazan baby's life saved by Wolfson heart surgery

"The war in Gaza has not slowed down the work of Save a Child's Heart, the voluntary organization based at Holon's Wolfson Medical Center that has provided free cardiac surgery to over 600 Palestinians and nearly 2,000 others from around the world. A three-week-old baby named Jafar from Gaza underwent surgery on Sunday nine days ago, the day after Israel's air strikes on Gaza were launched. Dr. Lior Sasson, SACH's chief surgeon, has done so many operations in recent weeks that he can hardly keep track. Jafar, he said, would almost surely have died quickly after birth because he was born with a severe congenital heart defect, the transposition of the great arteries" - Jerusalem Press