Operation Braveheart

12/06/2022

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9096323/ ❤

Cardiothoracic surgery in South Africa began in Cape Town spreading to the rest of the country, and since the end of apartheid slowly reaching other sub-Saharan African countries. It is a story of brilliant innovators, of the evils of the disease of apartheid ...

01/12/2020

Operation BraveHeart's Dr Cynthia Hunter published this paper on the challenges she faced trying to research on cardiac surgery for children in Sydney, Australia.

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20/09/2020

Stephen Gately of Boyzone died because he did not get the heart surgery he needed as a child. Lets promise, 'No Matter What' that we will work to ensure this does not happen to other children worldwide.

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14/09/2020

Tamsyn's photo graces our Op BH page. She was the first child we recruited into our program. I keep in touch with her mum, Deidre and thank her for sending such a great photo and keeping in touch - her raised arm is a celebration for all her family. This is what life can mean for millions of children in need of surgery!
Lauraine

13/09/2020

Children being able to get Cardiac Surgery matters and it matters that we meet children's rights in resource poor settings to health care and well being.

This medical humanities paper describes our qualitative research into pathways to care and informed consent for 10 children who had cardiac surgery in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Our multidisciplinary team consists of cardiologists, anthropologists, a s...

12/09/2020

Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) is an enormous problem in Low Middle Income Countries and particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. There is an estimated 500,000 children born in Africa with CHD each year with a major proportion of this in sub-Saharan Africa. The vast majority of these children receive sub-optimal or no care at all. In East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda have all attempted to create a CHD service for the last 20 years with minimal success due to various factors. Why does this happen BUT how can we change this? Operation BraveHeart has solutions.!

07/07/2020

Tamzin was the first child to come into our study in Cape Town, South Africa. Today she graces our front page and her mum writes that "she is well, and turning 15yrs old on the 10 August. She is active, plays netball for her school and for a club in our area over weekends. She dances as well and has competed in completions in Durban and Johannesburg. She is now grade 9 and is doing well academically. She's turning into a respectable young lady and we are super proud of her." How really lovely to get this story and how proud we are of her too. Best wishes, Lauraine
Hope to hear from you soon.

02/07/2020

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02/07/2020

We are writing the story and changing children's lives...

This medical humanities paper describes our qualitative research into pathways to care and informed consent for 10 children who had cardiac surgery in the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa. Our multidisciplinary team consists of cardiologists, anthropologists, a s...

20/06/2020

Operation Braveheat research with many thanks to Cynthia, John, George and Lawrence but especially Guy Neveling have reached a milestone with our publication in BMJ Medical Humanities. This is the story of heart surgery in Cape Town and thank you all our braveheart children and their families who made it possible. We are taking steps to bring heart surgery to those chidren who never get it.... Hurrah!!
https://mh.bmj.com/content/early/2020/05/28/medhum-2019-011650.full?ijkey=FJg.ARp0Iqslw&keytype=ref&siteid=bmjjournals

17/05/2020

We are hoping to hear back from any of the children or parents involved in our study. Please reply to this message. thanks Lauraine

17/05/2020

Operation BraveHeart team is pleased to tell you that very soon we will have an article on our research in Cape Town published in BMJ Medical Humanities....Hurrah!!
Thank you to all our families for helping to support children getting heart surgery across the world. Lauraine