What We Do

Cardiac Programme

To read about some of our most recent child Cardiac stories please click on the photographs below:

Cardiac Programme History & Background

With the help of Dr William Novick and his US Medical teams, over 6,000 children on an existing waiting list for surgeries will be operated on into 2010 and 2011. Dr Novick also continues to perform life-saving operations on children in Belarus, where the waiting list for surgeries was 7,000 children when he first began working there over six years ago.

One of the organs most vulnerable to the devastating effects of nuclear radiation is the heart. Many surgeons working in the Chernobyl Zone have  identified a previously unknown condition which they have termed Chernobyl Heart. With one operation, the Chernobyl Heart condition can be easily remedied. Each operation costs just €1,000! It is estimated that 800 to 1000 new-born infants are added to this list each year. Without intervention most of the children on the waiting list are looking at a very short lifespan. Many of them will die within 3 to 5 years.

The Cardiac Programme is being run in conjunction with our US office. Our organisation provides financial and logistical support to the International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) cardiac surgeons, led by world renowned surgeon Dr William Novick.

Through the Cardiac Programme CCPI are able to save 25 - 30 children on each of the trips. Because the cardiac surgeons travel to the region to perform the surgeries, CCPI are able to reach and save many more lives and provide much needed training to local physicians. This training develops local capacity and allows the upskilling of local surgical teams.

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