Israel’s “Save a Child’s Heart” brings Rwandan children for heart treatment
Posted on August 19, 2007 • By Deena Levenstein
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Save a Child’s Heart (SACH), in Israeli organization, has brought five Rwandan children with heart disease to Tel Aviv last week for operations. The children range in age from a few months old to 15 years old. They will be operated on in the Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv.
SACH has brought 1700 children from 27 countries in the past 12 years for heart surgery so far. Rwanda is the 28th country.
30 percent of the children being treated come from Africa. “But whether it’s the refugees of Sudan, the poor from Palestine, Iran, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia or any other nation worldwide we are here and ready to save lives,” said Simon Fisher, executive director of SACH.
SACH began when an Ethiopian doctor contacted Dr. Ami Cohen in Israel requesting his help with pediactric heart disease cases in 1995. Dr. Cohen since passed away in 2001 but the organization has continued to grow into over 70 Israeli medical professionals and has, since its establishment, operated on hundreds of children.
“Rwanda: Children Arrive in Israel for Heart Treatment”, allAfrica.com, August 15, 2007.
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