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10 million children every year are born with a congenital heart defect – yet 75% of them, mostly in developing countries, will not have the care they need to survive and thrive into adulthood.
The Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation’s Initiative is helping to change their stories.
We invite you to join us.
What a year this has been!
We hope that you are enjoying a safe and happy holiday season, as we all hope for a brighter year ahead in which we can finally be together again. We have missed meeting with our donors in person these past months, but even as we have been limited to connecting with you through emails, phone and video chats, we remain inspired by an overriding sentiment: The dedication you have shown us for our mission, your cause.
That constant reminder motivated our dedicated doctors and medical staff to keep going and accept all personal risk in their pursuit of saving lives at the Aswan Heart Centre.
This holiday season, we celebrate the incredible work that you are doing behind the scenes despite the hardships we all endured.
We greatly look forward to gathering safely with you again, and until then, we wish you and yours a happy, healthy holiday knowing that no matter what challenges the future throws at us, you will always have the Hospital‘s back.
Happy Holidays!!
The Magdi Yacoub Team
Between myectomies, Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub spoke with Amelia Scholtz about the bustling present and promising future of the Aswan Heart Centre. Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub, OM, FRS, is now a legend in cardiac surgery. He helped initiate a new era of heart transplantation in the United Kingdom in the 1980s and pioneered surgical techniques…..
Through the Aswan Heart Centre and future Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Centre in Cairo, we support improved comprehensive, advanced cardiac care that is available to all people in need, free of charge – dramatically changing the health outcomes of the most vulnerable, particularly children, in Egypt and the broader Middle East and Africa.
The successful integration of clinical care, research and training for a center of medical excellence in Egypt serves as an inspiration to others in resource-poor contexts of what can be possible for the future of global health. Every day, our teams provide a real-world example of the changing landscape of health through our commitment to:
Serve
the community by offering state-of-the-art, free-of-charge medical care to all patients, regardless of their color, religion, or gender.
Learn
through research and innovation through applied research to effect change both in Egypt and beyond.
Teach
the next generation of young doctors, nurses, scientists, engineers, and technicians from the Middle East and Africa.
We charge
$0
to patients and families in need.
Our teams perform
4,000
surgical and cardiac procedures annually.
We train a combined
230
students and fellows
each year annually.
We have seen a
total number of
34,000
patients in 2018.
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Locating our operations in the area of greatest need is vital to our work and part of what makes The Magdi Yacoub Global Heart Foundation special. It also means that each dollar stretches further and farther in reaching children and families in need.
Please open your heart today to join us, recognizing the difference that you can make on the frontiers of knowledge, the future health of our world and the life of a child.