Healing Little Hearts is a UK based charity which provides free heart surgery to babies and children in the developing world.
The charity estimates that every year more than 1 million children are born with Congenital Heart Disease worldwide, and sadly only 10% of these children receive the life-saving treatment they desperately need.
Their primary aim is to ensure all children are given the opportunity to live the life they deserve by funding open heart surgery and interventional cardiac catheterisation.
In 2018 the Randal Charitable Foundation gave a significant grant to the charity to fund heart surgeries for babies and children in India and also to train local surgeons to carry out the life-saving operations in the future. In 2022 the Foundation provided further funding for one year towards the continuation of free cardiac surgical work for children in 6 camps based in India and Africa.
The charity currently has cardiac camps in 40 hospitals in 12 countries, which are located in India, Pakistan Bangladesh, Cameroon, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Romania, Latvia, Palestine, Mauritius and Malaysia.
Healing Little Hearts has undertaken over 150 international cardiac missions, averaging 20 per year, and has operated on more than 2000 patients to date.
As part of this work the charity’s medical volunteers spend many hours teaching and training the local staff at each partner hospital to become self-sufficient, which will lead to the saving of many thousands of young lives in the future.
For more information on Healing Little Hearts visit here.
