Physical Health China Project #10838

Curing kids with heart disease in southwest China

by China California Heart Watch

Curing kids with heart disease in southwest China

Project Report | Jul 30, 2018
Activities in July

By Meredith Yang | Project reporter

Dr. Lutterbach

We have had a successful run this July, visiting Lijiang in association with three doctors from Fu Wai Hospital in Kunming (Dr. Yang, Dr. Liu, and Dr. Gao) screening for Critical Congenital Heart Disease (CCHD) in Lijiang. The trip was also led by Dr. Lutterbach, a pediatric cardiologist from Colorado Children's Hospital, accompanied by a few externs from the US and China who were eager to learn.

On our trip this month, we identified 32 children who would require surgery, of which 3 will receive surgeries as complex CCHD cases at the renowned Huaxi hospital in Chengdu. We started first at Yulong county in collaboration with the county hospital, traveling to villages to find and screen children with CCHD, setting up mobile clinics for the day for patients to come in and to be seen. The children will likely receive follow-up surgical intervention at Fu Wai hospital. The trip ended succesfully, and we hope to continue travelling to rural Yunnan for this important work.

Below are a few pictures from this trip!

Team at Lijiang

Picking up students from the airport

Day at the mobile clinic

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