and surgeons volunteer in Bangladesh
Health studies indicated that congenital surnal diseases are common diseases in Bangladesh, where there are 25 children born with congenital heart disease (the global average is eight per thousand) in every thousand newborns, many of them need an open heart operation, and one study also says that eighty percent of Families of pediatric cardiac patients in Bangladesh are below the poverty line.
Based on these large numbers and the urgent need, the Small Hearts Team decided to send a volunteer campaign to Bangladesh to conduct open heart operations and therapeutic catheters for these children, in order to help poor families in performing these operations, which are considered one of the most dangerous and costly operations, and this team succeeded in the period between 5- December 12, 2015 By the grace of God, he performed 36 open heart operations and 48 therapeutic catheters in the Heart Center of the Military Hospitals Complex in Dhaka, thank God.
It is worth noting that this program originated eight years ago and carried out more than 20 volunteer campaigns during which it visited 9 Arab and Islamic countries. Many consultants, nurses, and cardiac catheterization technicians and cardiac surgeries for Saudi and non-Saudi children from most universities and cardiac centers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia are volunteering in this team. Not limited to Dr. Mazen Fadin, consultant pediatric heart anesthesia, Dr. Saud Bahaidara, consultant pediatric heart, and Dr. Ahmed Azhar, pediatric heart consultant from the College of Medicine and University Hospital, King Abdulaziz University in Jeddah.
