| CHILDREN’S HEART SURGERY PROGRAM
There is a child in Viet Nam that desperately needs a heart procedure to have any chance at a quality life! In many cases it will be a child that without a heart operation will not have a future.
There are over 800 babies, children, teenagers, and young adults on the “wait list” at Hue Medical College’s Hue Central Hospital that need a heart repaired. These are individuals and families who cannot afford the cost of an operation. Most are very needy, seriously economically disadvantaged, and many without any family or resources to pay for the procedure. These are Vietnamese and ethnic minority people who do not have overseas Vietnamese or Montagnards in places like the United States or Canada that can send them money for a procedure. Most heart procedures will cost between 40,000,000 – 72,000,000 Vietnamese Dong (that’s only $2,500-$4,500 US dollars).
Please consider a partial, full or annual Heart Surgery Sponsorship today! You can change a heart and save life by the repairing a child’s heart in Viet Nam!
Clink on this link for a copy of the Children’s Heart Surgery Program pamphlet. |
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That’s 4 year-old Phung Huu Bao (above) with his Grandfather, Tan. If you look closely you will see a blue tint to Bao’s lips and fingernails. He wasn’t getting enough oxygen because his heart had a hole in it. Without a heart operation this child would have died. Jan Johnson, herself an Army Nurse Viet Nam vet standing with Dr. Dave Jester, VWAM’s Medical Director, made the gift that enabled this child to receive a life-saving heart operation at Hue Medical College and Hospital. |
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