Synergy behind first-rate medical care
A story in the Press Telegram of Los Angeles, California tells how medics working at a Dominican hospital were able to successfully tackle what US medics wouldn’t touch because it was too risky. Peter Chhun, founder of Hearts without Boundaries, a non-profit organization that brings destitute children from Cambodia for heart surgery in the US told of the recent case of three-year-old Socheat Nha. Doctors in the US had decided that her condition was too risky for them to handle. As reported, all seemed lost until the International Children’s Hearts Foundation, another non-profit organization specializing in helping sick children from Third World countries agreed to operate on Socheat’s heart in the DR.
Socheat was diagnosed with heart defects that required closing a hole, called a ventricular septal defect, and repair of the pulmonary artery between the heart and lungs. The procedure would cost US$5,000 for the hospital stay.
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