Cairo: The Heart-to-Heart Campaign has so far provided free life-saving surgeries for 1,500 Egyptian children and elderly people with genetic heart defects, arterial occlusion and cardiac valvular dysfunction.

The campaign was launched in November by the Saudi German Hospital in collaboration with Dar Al Ber Charity and the Zayed Giving Initiative,

Volunteer doctors from the UAE, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and France screened hundreds of cardiac patients in Egyptian villages during the week-long initiative.