Ecuador signs exclusive health agreement with International Children's Heart Foundation
International Children's Heart Foundation has signed an agreement with the government of Ecuador to provide pediatric cardiac surgery and to train the medical professionals of their country over a five year time span.
- Memphis, TN-AR-MS (1888PressRelease) July 07, 2011 - International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) announced today that they have signed an exclusive and unprecidented agreement with the Ecuadorian government to perform pediatric cardiac surgery in their country. ICHF is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing lifesaving surgical care to children with congenital heart disease throughout the developing world.
The agreement was signed by ICHF CEO Alberto Marzan and the Minister of Health in Ecuador, Dr. David Chiriboba. It specifies that ICHF will travel from the United States five times per year to perform an approximate total of 80-100 lifesaving surgeries at the Icaza Bustamante Children's Hospital. The agreement also enables the local doctors and nurses to benefit from ICHF's educational curriculum which will give them the skills to carry out complex surgeries independently.
"This is a monumental partnership with the Ecuadorian government because it highlights the importance of our educational curriculum," said Marzan. " ICHF isn't only going into Ecudador and performing these surgeries and leaving. We're empowering the local professionals at Bustamante to be self sufficient within a 5 year time frame."
About ICHF
Since 1994, the mission of the International Children's Heart Foundation (ICHF) has been to bring the skills, technology and knowledge to diagnose and care for children with congenital heart disease to developing countries that request our help. ICHF does this regardless of country of origin, race, religion or gender. Our teams are assembled from world class cardiac care centers. We implement our informational curriculum by operating with and educating local health care professionals. With this training, they in turn can care for the local children. Since inception, over 5,000 operations have been performed in countries that span all continents.
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