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AKUH Starts Paediatric Cardiac Surgery Programme
Responding to the need for proper diagnosis and surgical management
of heart diseases in children, Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH)
has initiated a paediatric cardiac surgery programme in collaboration
with leading international health care institutions.
Paediatric cardiac surgery is a super speciality and there are only
a limited number of trained paediatric cardiac surgeons in Pakistan.
Each year, 120,000 children are born with congenital heart disease
in Pakistan. Almost 90 % cent of these children either die or are
diagnosed so late that even surgery is ineffectual. Many parents
of children with congenital heart disease are therefore forced to
travel outside Pakistan for corrective surgery.
The paediatric cardiac surgery programme at AKUH that began in June
2006, was developed in collaboration with similar programmes available
at some of the leading centres of the world. It is the result of
many months of planning and extensive international training of
support staff. A team of paediatric cardiac surgeon, paediatric
cardiac anaesthetist/intensivist, paediatric cardiac perfusionist
and a specialist surgeon's assistant from Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne
in England also spent two weeks at AKUH to help initiate the programme.
Dr Muneer Amanullah, a paediatric cardiac surgeon at AKUH, played
the lead role in developing the programme. Dr Amanullah has extensive
experience in his field including more than seven years as a paediatric
cardiac surgeon at the Freeman Hospital in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in
England.
All the paediatric cardiac surgeries performed so far at AKUH have
been successful owing to careful planning, commitment, dedication
and extensive specialised training of the entire team. The complexity
of surgeries has varied from complete repairs of Total Anomalous
Pulmonary Venous Drainage in a 3.5 kg baby girl to a complete repair
of Tetralogy of Fallot in a four years old girl.
One of the few teaching hospitals in the world to be ISO 9001 certified,
AKUH combines high quality clinical service with compassionate,
ethical, accessible, high quality and individualistic patient care
that meets the needs or expectations of our patients, their families
and others whom we serve
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