It Is Incredible That Both Will Survive
By Yamileth Caraceres, El Salvador.com
May 15, 2007
Dedication Betsy Tirado, a nurse in Heart Care, a girl newly revised operated from the heart.
Betsy Tirado arrived in the country on Mother's Day. It is part of the group of 75 professionals Heart Care International, an organization that together with my Healthy Heart Foundation, runs this week to several children with heart problems. He took his vacation to come to work.
Is this the first time you come to El Salvador?
It's my third day. We had an earlier trip to learn about the hospital and see if it could work here.
And his work in New York?
If you are interested in making these missions have to choose the holidays.
What motivates the work in their spare time?
It is something voluntary. We know that we are the only option for these children and we can improve life in the United States, any child, no matter how poor it is, has access to medical care, no matter if you can pay or not. When you're in a country that is developing and does not have the resources, is a death sentence.We who have that ability to help, we do.
In the Hospital Bloom, there are children who spend a year and more expected from surgery How is cardiovascular and theme there?
We do not have. The difference between now and the U.S. is that what we see here, there are only seen in books. A tetralogy of Fallot operate in the months to two years and here we see patients from ten to 15 years with this problem.It is incredible that these children will survive that long.
Well, but will always have their waiting lists ...
The problem was diagnosed before birth or shortly after birth. Next, if you have to do catheterism given date. We operate babies born of hours or days, some of them should be expected to grow and increase in weight, depending on the case, but most of the intervening period in infants.
Where lies the importance of surgery in time?
In the smooth development of the patient. The later is operated, the more complications will see. If you do not operas, you'll have in this patient in and out of hospital. The child, or dies or is a major expense for the hospital, it is better to operate early.
What do you think of the program of the Hospital Bloom?
The problem is that you do not have the necessary equipment. They can do surgery without us, have an excellent team of physicians. The training is the same level as us, but they lack support.