Dubai: More than 75 different heart surgeries will be conducted on Sudanese children with congenital heart defects by the medical team of Nabadat (heartbeat) initiative. The children are aged between three months to 15 years.
The medical team, which includes 22 paediatric heart specialists, consultants, nurses and technicians as well as ICU specialists, arrived in Sudan on Saturday to discharge a humanitarian mission by performing complicated open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterisation on children suffering from congenital anomalies, coronary arteries and heart-valve diseases.
The team was received at Khartoum Airport by a number of Sudanese officials and headed to Wad Medani city, which lies south of the Sudanese capital where they will perform the surgeries.
The current mission is the third to be done by Nabdat initiative in Sudan, Saleh Zaher, Director of Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charity and Humanitarian Foundation, said. The foundation will cover the cost of all surgeries that will be performed as part of the team’s visit to Sudan. It will also provide all necessary logistical support to ensure success in treating as many children as possible during the team’s mission that will end on December 18.
Nabdat initiative that was launched earlier to save children with congenital heart defects has been was officially launched by the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and the Mohammad Bin Rashid Al Maktoum Charity and Humanitarian Foundation.
