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    ITAR-TASS News Agency
    TASS
    May 1, 2004 Saturday

    Int'l teams of doctors to give 25 heart surgeries to Belarus kids

    By Larissa Klyuchnikova

    MINSK

    A traditional charity action The Children's Hearts begins here Sunday.

    Its co-organizers are the Belarussian Children's Fund and the Public
    Health Ministry, with the support of the Minsk Rotary Club.

    Assistance to it has also come from the Irish charity organization The
    Chernobyl Children's Project and the international charity group
    Sophia.

    As part of the action, an international team of cardiac surgeons will
    give extremely complicated open heart surgeries to 25 Belarussian
    children having congenital heart diseases.

    The team made up of 13 surgeons with Dr William Novic in the lead will
    be working for a period of two weeks at the Belarussian Republican
    Center for Cardiology.

    All the surgeries will be gratuitous and the doctors are committed to
    observing the highest world surgical standards, spokespeople for the
    Cardiology Center said.

    The Children's Hearts program has helped save the lives of 311
    children, who have been given surgeries in the best clinics of Russia,
    the U.S., Armenia, and Germany.

    Official statistic data indicates that about 800 children with
    congenital heart and blood vessel dysfunctions are born in Belarus
    every year.

    On the whole, about 10,000 Belarussian children need surgical treatment
    of cardiovascular problems at the moment.
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