Children with heart defects should not die. Help!

Help is urgently needed for children with congenital heart defects, which are operated from the first days of life at the Amosov Institute! In order for children to survive the first 24 hours of their life at birth with a diagnosis of an open arterial duct, Alprostan is used. But the state hasn’t bought it this year and the children are dying! We appeal to you with a cry of help! Support the project, which aims to purchase 20 packs of medicine for children! 

According to statistics, annually in Ukraine about five thousand children are born with congenital anomalies of the cardiovascular system, of which doctors assess the condition of 30-40% of patients as critical. Without surgery, 42% of these patients die in childhood, with almost 90% at the age of one year.

Such assistance is provided in the department of surgical treatment of congenital heart defects in newborns and young children of the Amosov Institute, the main focus of which is the surgical treatment of the most complex air force in children. Practically all cardiac surgeries in the world that have been implemented in the Air Force have been introduced and are being carried out in the department. Every year, about 700 operations are performed in the department for children from all over Ukraine, for whom the “price” of a successful operation is the future life, of which 70 are operations with the critical Air Force. To save small hearts needed expensive drugs. To date, the Department of Congenital Heart Diseases in Newborns and Young Children of the National Institute of Cardiovascular Surgery them. Amosov is in dire need of acquiring Alprostan. Unfortunately, today the Institute receives only 1% of funding from the need for the purchase of medicines and medical products, and patients are actively receiving.

When a child is born with critical air force, namely ductus-dependent deficiencies, his life depends on the functioning of the so-called open arterial duct (ductus arteriosus), which can be closed during the first breath of the child, leading to death. To avoid this, it is necessary to apply the high-cost drug Alprostan, still in the hospital that does not allow this strait to close and allows you to deliver the child to the Amosov Institute for surgery. The state has not allocated budget funds for the purchase of this drug, unless Alprostan is administered a child will die within 24 hours! We appeal to caring people with a request to purchase Alprostan (20 packs) for children.

It is so important in a string of everyday affairs not to stop believing in a miracle... Little patients of our department especially rely on him, wanting only one to be healthy!