kinderherzen brings hope to children with congenital heart defect
Medtech supplier Getinge provided several products from its former Experience Center in Rastatt, Germany to support the non-profit organization kinderherzen in their work to build a mobile cardiac surgery unit for children with congenital heart defect.
Every 30 second, somewhere in the world a baby is born with a life-threatening, but treatable heart defect – approximately 1.3 million children each year*.
“The country in which the baby is born often determines whether they survive. Some countries are lacking adequate medical care and where even a simple infection can be fatal,