A child after a heart surgery in Kazakhstan.
A medical team from Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) conducted 32 heart surgeries on children in Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan.
The project was part of RAF’s ongoing campaign “Al Qulub Al Saghira” (small hearts) to provide health services to children with heart diseases.
The medical team spent 11 day from May 13 to 23 in Kazakhstan to complete the surgery. The surgery was conducted in Children’s Heart Surgery Hospital at National Scientific Medical Center in Astana.
The project cost of QR450,000 was financed by people in Qatar by donations to rescue the life of beneficiary children. A total of 32 operations including 12 open heart surgeries and 20 cardiac catheterisations were conducted by RAF’s medical team comprising 20 specialists in surgery, endoscopy, anaesthesia and intensive care.
In addition, about 40 medical staff from Kazakhstan got the opportunity to interact with the visiting medical team to gain practical experience.
The project was implemented in collaboration with Al Baraka foundation, RAF’s local partner in Kazakhstan.
“We collected the cases of children with heart problems from 17 states across the country,” said Solomon of Baghdash, Director of Al Baraka foundation. The beneficiary children aged four days to 13 years.
For the first time such a medical project has been implemented, said Dr Shuhrat Marasolov, Director of Children's Heart Surgery Hospital, National Scientific Medical Center.
