50 a Day to Heal Hearts
By Yamileth Caceres, El Salvador.com
May 14, 2007
After three attempts to heal her heart at the Hospital Bloom, Tania Vanessa Sanchez, a teenager of 15 years arrived yesterday at the operating room. It was a moment that for years seemed impossible for her family.
His mother, Mary Audelia, recalls that the first time that he suspended the surgery was for a strike, and the final last year by the lack of space in the Intensive Care Unit and a medicine.
On Sunday, doctors Bloom called to tell him that Tania would be operated on the day of open heart surgery performed by the Heart Care International and the Foundation Sana my Heart.
The doctors of the organization each year traveling the country to provide an opportunity for children with heart problems and scarce economic resources.
Celina of Quinonez, a member of the board of the foundation Sana my Heart, said they will do 25 open heart surgeries in Bloom and 25 cardiac catheterisation in the Diagnostic Hospital.
The entity invests in each operation an average of three thousand dollars, and in the catheterization $ 1, 500.
The Hospital Diagnostic put their facilities for free and physicians Heart Care International donated their time and labor.
This kind of conference helps the body to reduce the waiting list that exceeds 300.
Doctors are waiting to speak five to six children every day. The catheterisation begin on Thursday.
Mauritius veiled, Bloom's cardiologist, said that for the time selected the most stable to operate to achieve the greatest number of infants. They also took into account children who urgently need to enter the operating room.
The first two girls entered the operating room yesterday at 8:00 in the morning, three hours later left without any problems.
"We had already waited many years, sometimes renegábamos and we wondered why," said Mary, the mother of Tania.
Ensured that the operation was to patients, the medical center reduces the cost of care and gives you a better quality of life for children.
"These are children who visit the hospital less and no longer enter from respiratory diseases. The center saves inputs," he added.
Earlier this year, the program of cardiovascular Bloom was stopped by the lack of an anesthesiologist.
The problem is not yet resolved and the surgeries have been reduced by half.
The Director of the Hospital Bloom said that they have financial difficulties in training an anesthesiologist abroad.