Children's Heart- LIFE-SAVING CARDIAC SURGERY

The Mission Bambini  Foundation, as part of the Children's Heart Program, has been engaged in the treatment of childhood heart disease around the world since 2005.
In order to save children with severe heart disease who are born in the poorest countries, one of the ways of intervention is to provide arrangements and assistance to travel to Italy for children who can not have surgery in their own country, due to lack of hospital facilities and/or sufficiently specialized personnel.
G. Sier
Little Sier was born in Tirana in 2019 with congenital heart disease, which was diagnosed at the age of 2 months and since then she has been regularly followed up with outpatient visits while waiting for surgery. She lives with her mom and dad in Tirana and recently had a baby sister born.
Sier has always demonstrated herself to be a strong child, and this has allowed her to have a fairly regular growth path. Unfortunately, due to the Covid-19 pandemic and border closures, she had to wait longer than expected and developed bacterial endocarditis.
Finally, at the end of July 2022 came the confirmation of his hospitalization in Italy, at Niguarda Hospital in Milan.
Sier and his dad were followed by Mission Bambini regarding all travel arrangements, in terms of airline tickets, visas, and reception.
Thanks to the Foundation's volunteers, the dad and his little girl were followed every step of the way in such a delicate situation as heart surgery in a foreign country.
Fortunately, the surgery went well according to expectations and today little Sier is doing great and can fully enjoy her childhood. Since the surgery was conclusive, she will not need surgery in the future. She will be visited regularly by the Albanian cardiologist to monitor her gro