Abstract
The infant mortality rate (IMR) of a country is a commonly used indicator to reflect the health status of a population. While nearly 70 countries have managed to achieve single-digit IMRs, close to 124 emerging countries continue to have IMRs in the 2 and even 3 digits. So, a significant proportion of children born with congenital heart disease in Asia, Africa, and Latin America do not receive proper diagnosis or treatment.
Only 30 countries are providing appropriate care to all their patients while 1.5% of children born outside of industrialized countries receive needed surgery. Clearly, a substantial shortage of physicians, healthcare professionals, facilities, and budgets is dedicated to the management of this significant problem.
In this chapter, the plan to designing and “Develo** a Sustainable Congenital Heart Center in an Emerging Country” and a “Success Story” are discussed.
While in the short term this problem is unlikely to be solved, surgical/educational humanitarian campaigns combined with adequate locally budgeted resources and a sustainable plan may, in the long term, create the conditions by which most children born with heart defects in the develo** world could be diagnosed and treated in time to have a full and productive life.
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Novick, W.M., Cardarelli, M. (2023). Pediatric Cardiac Surgery in Emerging Countries. In: Dabbagh, A., Hernandez Conte, A., Lubin, L.N. (eds) Congenital Heart Disease in Pediatric and Adult Patients. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-10442-8_53
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