BAGHDAD — It will be three years before doctors in Iraq can perform heart surgery on infants, doctors say, in a country where birth defects are high due to marriage within extended families. “Until now, we have not been able to conduct heart surgery on infants,” said Doctor Hussein Ali al-Hilli, director of the Ibn Bitar Hospital for Cardiac Surgery in Baghdad. “We receive 80 children a day with various heart-related birth defects that we cannot treat. We need three years to learn... More →
About Heartbeat
HEARTBEAT – La Chaine de L’Espoir is a humanitarian, charitable organization with a mission to provide the highest level of advanced surgical technology and expertise available to treat children with heart disease. The association does this regardless of country of origin, race, religion or gender! Throughout the past five years, HEARTBEAT has organized several fund-raising concerts at BIEL, Faqra and the Casino du Liban. All concerts were major successes, with audience of more than 15,000... More →