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My Dear Donors,

First I would like to thank you all for your generous contrbutions to help poor children with congenital heart defects over the past four years. I would like to thank all medical staff who are volunteering their time and expertise to help children with heart conditions in remote areas of Egypt like Upper Egypt (Sohag and Assiut and Beni Suef). The economic crisis has generated even more needy children. It is soaring expensive for 90% of the population to make ends meet. Almost 40% of the poplulation earn less than one USD a day according the World Bank reports on Egypt. The funds from yourselves are helping those poor children as the government can not cope with the needs. Help from NGO and society members is mandatory.

GlobalGiving donations are added to Heart to Heart project Global Grant funds from Rotary International and Rotary clubs reaching 76K USD in Heart2Heart Phase 4. Since the last reports thanks to you we have performed 15 procedures in Cairo and Sohag. The children ages range from 4 months to 16 yearsold. Some of them have simple lesions and others are more complex who had repeated procedures. However to parents and families they are all sick children with heart conditions. We are for them the saviours They have been waiting especially in Sohag for so long. We have a big challenge the deficiency in the consumables and devices aggravated by the ecnomic crisis. 

So please keep donating and keep following our progress and keep your support high and spread the news to your families and friends.

 The average cost around 2600-2800 USD per patient which is extremely expensive and beyond 99% of Egypt population abilities. Thre is nationa health service in Egypt but it is impossible for the government to cope with 110 million population with a newborn every 1.5 minutes. So we are extremely grateful to our supporters. These children suffered from either holes in their hearts or narrowing of vessels or valves. They had non-invasive catheter procedures to close the holes using state of the art recent technology devices or balloon dilate the stenotic valves or vessels. The consumables eg (devices, balloons stents ... etc) are extremely expensive and consume 80% of the budget allocated to each patient.  All doctors are volunteers. The advantages of such state of the art technique is that patients go home the next day completely cured. No added risk of ICU stay, or blood transfusions and no disfiguering scars.

I would like to attach all the patients data however this is against GlobalGiving reporting policy despite having all relevant consents. Those of you who wish more information on the patients please email me: elsisi96@yahoo.com. We will continue our work we have very long waiting lists. We are dependant on your cintinued giving. Please continue to donate, your donations are mandatory.

Yours

Dr Amal El-Sisi

Prof of Pediatric Cardiology Cairo University

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