Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Services (RAF) said that a medical team has conducted 32 open-heart surgeries and cardiac catheterisation in Kazakhstan as part of its “Small Hearts” project, which started in 2013 and has covered several countries so far.
RAF said that it had recently sent a medical convoy to Kazakhstan, which conducted 32 open heart surgery and catheterisation at the Heart Surgery Hospital for children at the scientific medical centre in the Kazakh capital, Astana at a cost of nearly half a million Qatari riyals with the support of Qatari philanthropists.
Thirty-two of these, including 12 open-heart surgery and 20 cardiac catheterisation, were performed in the presence of the RAF medical team and some 40 doctors in Kazakhstan.
Sulaimanov Baghdash, Director of Al-Baraka Foundation, a partner of RAF in Kazakhstan, which oversaw the implementation of the project praised the charitable efforts of Qatar which he said had spread throughout the world, citing RAF Foundation projects for meeting the needs of the poor as a mercy for human being.
Dr Shahrat Marasulov, Director of the Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Hospital at the National Medical Science Centre, said: “For the first time in the hospital, such a project to be attended by a high-level integrated team that includes specialists for all stages of paediatric heart treatment in Kazakhstan.”
He stressed the importance of the project for the spread of heart diseases in Kazakhstan, especially open heart surgery for children under 10kilos as a precise and rare specialty.
The small hearts project was launched in co-operation with the London-based Islamic Forum which has conducted more than 270 heart operations in a number of countries.




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