Curing kids with heart disease in southwest China

In order to comply with new Chinese laws and better serve the poor children of Yunnan Province, China California Heart Watch(China Cal) has revised its approach toward  this project.  China Cal has made an agreement with its partner hospital, Yunnan Province Fu Wai Cardiovascular Hospital. This contractual agreement will provide for periodic grants from China Cal and provision of volunteers to that hospital in order to diagnose, refer and treat poor rural Yunnan Province children with heart disease.  Fu Wai will use local health care personnel to perform mission trips to poor rural areas where children will be screeened and when needed treated appropriately using grants from China Cal and other foundations.

We are happy to announce that this new method is already working.  In December of 2018, teams of Fu Wai personnel with volunteer local and foreign pediatric cardiologists referred and supported over 30 poor chidren with heart disease from Xi Shuang Ban Na prefecture near the Burmese border.  

Links:

• China Cal Website

Our August mission trip in Yuxi was a blowout success.  We identified 30 poor children with congenital heart disease and  found good surgical care and financial support for their treatments.  All these kids, thanks to you our donors, are on their way toward a long and healthy life.  In August, we were lucky to have help from two cardiologists from Yunnan Province Fu Wai Cardiovascular Hospital.

 We also had a pediatric cardiology expert from Texas Children’s Hospital, Dr. Judith Becker.  Dr.  Becker not only supervised and taught the rest of the team, she also mentored our student extern, Ms. Emma Duan.  Emma, a high school student from Maryland, was our student extern in August and told us that she had the learning experience of a lifetime because of the inspiration she received from Dr. Becker and the rest of the team. Here I introduce our August team and some of the kids we helped.

Links:

• Our Website