Heart surgery done on 23 patients by overseas group

Bibi Shareema Haleem, mother of one of the babies who underwent heart surgery, tends to her baby boy. (DPI photo)

The International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF) has performed another 23 surgeries on infants and adults, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

The ICHF, referred to here as the Baby Heart Foundation (BHF), has to date performed 100 procedures during eleven trips in  three years.

During  July, a team of cardiac specialists both from the ICHF and the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) performed life-saving heart surgeries on both babies and adults over a period of two weeks.