ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Children’s Heart Foundation (PCHF) has organised the first of its kind, training programme to offer surgical training and build the capacity of a number of pediatric cardiac surgery institutions.
The 14-member medical mission is comprised of renowned cardiac surgeons, interventionists, anesthesiologists, nurses, respiratory therapists and technicians from France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Canada and the United States.
“The mission, over the last four days, has performed 31 interventions and eight complex cardiac surgeries in Lahore and Faisalabad along with Pakistani surgeons. The highlights of mission work include performing of Nikaidoh Procedure for the Correction of Transposition of the Great Arteries, Ventricular Septal Defect and Pulmonary Stenosis and the use of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation on a child after the surgery whose heart stopped working. These procedures have been used for the first time in any public-sector hospital in Pakistan,” Children’s Hospital Dean Professor Masood Sadiq and Professor Anjum Jalal from the Institute of Cardiology, Faisalabad said in a joint briefing.
Published in Daily Times, April 3rd 2018.
