(Deutschland-Germany) Christina Pfander - Since 2016, Prof. Felix Berger of the German Heart Center Berlin and Dr. Sagi Assa, pediatric cardiologist at Wolfson Medical Center in Tel Aviv, have travelled to Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, for one week each year, accompanied by 20 doctors and nursing staff from both hospitals, to help perform heart surgery. "The long-term objective is for the local doctors to run the pediatric cardiology clinic on their own," says Berger. The mission was initiated by the Israeli organization "Save a Child's Heart," which works to improve medical care for children with heart defects in many countries.
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