When the tiniest hearts break: Behind SA’s shortage of paediatric heart surgeons
The country can’t produce its own paediatric heart surgeons. But that may be beginning to change, starting in Cape Town.
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Libya’s war kills little children in need of heart surgery
The country’s health system is ravaged, but a team of volunteer doctors visit regularly: operating on the desperate and training local medical staff.
Cape Town doctors make history with heart operation
Doctors have performed a ground-breaking heart operation on a 59-year-old woman in Cape Town, Mediclinic Southern Africa has confirmed.
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Doctors to decide on heart problem baby
Johannesburg doctors are deciding whether to operate on six-day-old baby Ashleigh, who was born with part of her heart outside her chest.
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Indian baby with ‘external heart’ dies, claims report
A baby who underwent rare surgery in an Indian hospital after being born with his heart outside his body has died, a report said on Wednesday.
