More Children Will Have Free Heart Surgeries – FBC News

From today, more children will undergo free heart surgeries at the Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Hospital.

Hospital director Dr Krupali Tappu said a mission led by Dr Roman Gebauer, a respected pediatric cardiac surgeon from Motol University Hospital in Prague, Czech Republic, is in the country to carry out operations until next Wednesday.

She says a qualified team of medical professionals from the Czech Republic, Slovenia, the UK and Australia will support Dr Gebauer.

Dr. Tappu says Sanjeevani Children’s Hospital has successfully performed 332 free heart surgeries to date, while more than 22,935 free echocardiograms have been conducted at the hospital’s screening center and outreach programs.