Sixty Heart Regain Health
By Yamileth Caceres, El Salvador.com
May 5, 2007
Moments in which surgeons operate the heart of one of the children benefited. The catheterization begin on Wednesday at the Hospital for diagnosis.
Pending Jesus Estanley Najarro ended yesterday. At 7:00 am entered the room, operating rooms Bloom Hospital where he corrected a flaw in the heart with which he was born and against which he fought for 7 years and four months.
Najarro is part of the 60 children selected by doctors to be Americans and Salvadorans intervened during the day of surgery and catheterization performed by the organization Heart Care International and the Foundation Sana my Heart.
The day turns into a lifesaver for the more than 200 children waiting for surgery, because the program interventions of this kind in Bloom limps from a year ago because of the lack of an anesthesiologist, as well as inputs and infrastructure .
The operations began yesterday morning and for the first time were three open heart surgeries simultaneously. On objective is to heal this week as many young patients as has happened with Jesus Stanley.
The child was detected the problem when he was 5 years and has since remained under control in Bloom. Operate it was a matter of urgency and thus prevent a heart attack ended his life. The opportunity came up to him yesterday.
Celina Quiñonez, director of My Heart Sana, said that the day is to "give it out to both children born with heart problems, last year, unfortunately, there were no transactions (enough) because the team (Bloom's) not was complete and the lack of appeal. "
On this day, which invests $ 500 billion, involved more than 80 foreign medical specialists supported by Salvadorans.
For activity foreigners have brought supplies and surgical equipment and other resources to enable an intensive care unit with eight beds. Will make 35 heart operations and some 25 cardiac catheterisation. The same number of interventions was achieved last year but in a period of six months.
Carlos Montoya, intensive pediatric cardiologist who came with the delegation of Heart Care indicated that "there is a list of about 200 cases needing an operation, we must help children who are waiting to get off the list. It is important to understand that surgery cardiovascular cure for children after surgery can lead a normal life. "
Montoya said that it is necessary that children with heart disease are operated in the first two years of life because then undergo changes in the pulmonary circulation that prevents taking them to operating rooms.
The lack of cardiovascular anesthesiologist led to decline of 110 open-heart surgeries in 2005 to 51 in 2007. It has also greatly increased the waiting list.