DAR ES SALAM, Tanzania – The tiny country of Israel has an abundance of world-class doctors and surgeons. But they're not keeping their medical expertise to themselves.Pediatric cardiac specialists from Save a Child's Heart recently traveled to East Africa to provide life-saving heart surgeries to desperately ill children in Tanzania, as well as to help develop that specialty there.
Dar Es Salam is Tanzania's largest city. Home to more than 50 million people, this East African country has only one hospital for heart patients.
Last year, the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute at the Muhimbili hospital saw 25,000 patients and performed 270 surgeries. That's not nearly enough.
Help is needed and the Israeli organization, Save a Child's Heart, is answering the call.
At the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, doctors give their time to Save a Child's Heart (SACH). Over the years they've saved the lives of more than 4,000 babies and children from Africa, South America, Asia and the Middle East.
Good, lets continue partnering with countries to get experts to operate on our patients save lives here in the country.
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