Getinge partners with kinderherzen to bring hope to children with congenital heart defect
Getinge provided several medtech products to support kinderherzen, a nonprofit organization in Sweden, in its mission to build a mobile cardiac surgery unit to treat children with congenital heart defect, one of the most common types of birth defects. Every 30 seconds, 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,” Anja Schlarb, head of mobile kinderherzen-clinic in Sweden, said. “Some countries are lacking