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I'm about to tell you the real reason children with heart disease are dying in developing countries and it has nothing to do with money alone… 💔

You've been told it's about resources. That these countries are too poor. That there's nothing anyone can do but accept it.

I've operated on over 10,000 children in 36 countries. I've seen hospitals with brand new equipment sitting unused. I've met brilliant local doctors who've never been given the chance to lead a surgery.
I've watched families travel for days, only to be told the visiting team already left.

Poverty sets the stage. But something else is determining who lives and who dies.

The real reasons children are dying:
💔 No trained teams – Operating on a baby's heart requires years of specialized training. In Africa, there's 1 pediatric cardiac surgeon for every 33 million people. In the US, it's 1 per 3 million. Most countries have zero.

💔 No sustainable programs – Foreign teams fly in, operate on 30 children, and fly home. The other 1,000 babies on the waiting list? They wait. Sometimes forever.

💔 No mentorship model – Local doctors are eager. They're capable. They WANT to learn. But no one stays long enough to teach them. You can't master heart surgery by watching it twice a year.

💔 No equipment maintenance – A $30,000 heart-lung machine gets donated. It breaks six months later. No one knows how to fix it. It becomes an expensive paperweight.

💔 No follow-up care – A child survives surgery but needs lifelong cardiology support. The foreign team is gone. There's no one to monitor that baby's heart at 6 months, 2 years, 10 years.

💔 No system building – Individual surgeries don't build healthcare systems. You need years of investment in people, not just procedures.

Here's what we do differently:
We don't do mission trips. We do 3-7 year commitments.

We visit each site 3-6 times per year – not to perform surgeries FOR them, but to train local teams to do it THEMSELVES.

Every trip, local surgeons operate more. Local nurses lead more. Local teams gain confidence. We do less on purpose – until they don't need us anymore.

In Libya, we've done nearly 1,000 surgeries since 2012. The local team now operates independently – in an active conflict zone, without us.

In Ukraine, surgeons we trained are saving children's lives during a war.
THAT'S what sustainable change looks like. Not flying in heroes. Building local ones 🫀

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