Provide heart surgeries for Rio's poorest children

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Summary

Provides access for poor families to medical professionals and life-saving heart surgeries for children who languish in sub-substandard medical situations and can die from inadequate care. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Poor children born with cardiac problems need surgery, but have trouble getting care from public hospitals, which lack physical and infrastructural resources. A large number of poor children born with cardiac problems die waiting for treatment. If they do receive treatment from the public health system, it is generally by doctors without adequate skills. When the case is complex, treatment can endanger rather than improve the child's condition. Rio has no children’s hospital.

Activities

Each child undergoes a detailed assessment consisting of medical examinations, ECG, and echocardiogram. Diagnosis and treatment are carried out by a professional team of specialists. Once the diagnosis is made the treatment is determined.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $780
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $20,220
Total Funding Goal: $21,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

There is nothing sadder than a parent who is unable to save a dying child simply because he does not have the financial resources required. Every life is precious.

Project Message

Taking care of these young lives, we learn that being able to serve is a great privilege: the privilege to replace with a smile the expression of pain on... a child suffering from heart disease.
- Dr.Rosa Célia Pimentel Barbosa, Founder and Director of ProCrianca Cardiaca

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Christine Clauser,
Director of Development - Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation
945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown, United States PA 15905
United States
(814) 255 4379
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Project Sponsor

Dreams Can Be Foundation/Dreams Brasil

Organization

Dreams Can Be Foundation
Dreams Can Be Foundation
945 Menoher Blvd.
Johnstown, PA 15905
United States
(814) 255-4379
http://www.dreamscanbe.org/

Learn more about Dreams Can Be Foundation and the project team.


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Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in Brazil and can also be found under Health.

For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on March 19, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 04, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Update on Procrianca

By Christine Clauser - Director of Development , March 19, 2008 05:37 PM

The Procrianca Foundation continues to perform heart surgeries for children from poor families. The hospital is also focusing on building a hospital that will provide state of the art surgeries in a setting that will offer their services to the community that can pay that will offset the nonprofit work that they perform.
In eleven years of work (1996-2007), Pró Criança Cardíaca has achieved the following results:

Odontological Appointments    1,028
Clinical Treatments    139
Catheterizations    258
General Surgeries    259
Cardiac Surgeries    619
Echocardiograms    4,142
Electrocardiograms    4,086
Total Number of Children Treated    11,338

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