Dubai docs to do free heart surgery for Sudan kids

The UAE’s ‘Nabadat’ initiative, launched in 2007, to provide free heart surgeries for children with congenital disease, will now be extending its services overseas.

The first country outside that UAE where such services will be provided is Sudan.

DHA cardiologists will travel to Sudan on June 7 and will perform a series of open heart surgeries to Sudanese children in critical need of such surgeries. The one-week workshop will take place 200km from Khartoum, the capital of Sudan, in ‘Wad Madani’ hospital.

Nabadat, which means heartbeat, is an initiative of the Dubai Health Authority (DHA) and Mohammed bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment, to provide free medical assistance, surgery and post-surgical care to children whose parents cannot afford to pay for treatment of congenital heart diseases.

DHA sponsors the treatment for Emiratis and the Mohammed bin Rashid Charity and Humanitarian Establishment sponsors treatment for expatriate patients.

More than 300 children (newborns to 19 year olds) with congenital heart diseases have been treated since its launch in 2007.

Eleven workshops have been held in Dubai so far with experts from Italy and Sweden to provide cardiac treatment to children with congenital heart diseases. The treatment is open to both Emirati and expatriate patients.

Those interested in enquiring about the next workshop for free heart surgeries may contact Dubai Hospital on 219 5000
 

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