Significant donations from generous individuals like you are crucial to our work mobilising volunteer medical teams for in-country missions providing free paediatric surgeries in children’s hospitals around the world.
Philanthropy enables not only the life transforming surgeries that take place on each clinical visit our medical volunteers make, but the training of the local medical and healthcare staff that creates a lasting change in the healthcare provision in our partner hospitals.
We have 20 years’ experience in delivering medical intervention, consultation and training in children’s hospitals around the world. Our training of local medical and healthcare workers provides long-term enhancement of the local healthcare system, as well as addressing children’s ‘immediate need’.
One example of lasting change is the open-heart program Operation Childlife opened at the Children’s Hospital 2 (CH2) in Vietnam in 2010. At that time over 500 children died each year from congenital heart disease and lack of access to care. Under the direction of Professor Mark Redmond, Operation Childlife volunteer and Board Member, two open heart cases are now performed daily at CH2 and other hospitals are also able to provide this service.
