28 Ghanaian children with heart diseases receive life-saving interventions

The interventions focused on repairing abnormal cardiac connections and defects Twenty-eight children suffering from congenital heart diseases have undergone life-saving paediatric cardiac procedures at the National Cardiothoracic Centre (NCTC), thanks to a four-day humanitarian mission led by a four-member paediatric cardiac team from Qatar Charity in collaboration with NCTC’s paediatric cardiac specialists.

The ing team was led by Paediatric Interventional Cardiologist Dr Iyad Al-Ammouri, Senior Paediatric Cardiac Anaesthesiologist Dr Hasan Ismail Mahmoud Amar, Catheterisation Lab Technologist Mohammad Faisal Hijazi Abu Rabie, Cathlab Technology Assistant Maysarah (MN) Nafi’ Mosleh, and Senior Cathlab Technician Kulindwa W.

The NCTC clinical team, led by Paediatric Cardiologists Prof Nana-Akyaa Yao and Dr Della Adzosii, together with Specialist Cathlab Anaesthesiologist Dr Sika Edinam Lumor, worked alongside the ing doctors to treat patients ranging from five-month-old infants to a 23-year-old medical student.