(Ha'aretz) Stephanie L. Freid - The Israel-based Save a Child's Heart program has been providing cardiac care to children in Tanzania since 2008, performing hundreds of procedures each year. A team of 20 Israeli operating-room and intensive-care nurses, anesthesiologists, perfusionists and intensive-care doctors has traveled to Mwanza, led by Dr. Lior Sasson, the head cardiothoracic surgeon at Israel's Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, to back up Godwin Godfrey, Tanzania's first and only pediatric heart surgeon. The team was with him during his specialization training in Israel, and they've brought a ton and half of medical gear - most of which they'll leave behind.
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