On April 3, 2024, thanks to the financial support of the HeartClinic Foundation and in cooperation with the local NGO “Coeur équitable”, doctors from the HeartClinic were able to carry out a small but important humanitarian mission. With the support of Prof. Oliver Kretschmar, Children’s Hospital Zurich, a catheter-based pulmonary valve implantation was successfully performed in a 28-year-old patient (Jerry) with a severe congenital heart defect from Madagascar. Due to the patient’s low socio-economic status, it would have been impossible to treat him in the normal way (as is the norm for us in Switzerland). Both Jerry and the whole family were overjoyed after the successful operation and would like to express their heartfelt thanks to all the staff at the HerzKlinik. We would like to thank the HeartClinic Foundation for making this treatment possible. For the global suffering of this world, it is just a drop in the ocean, but for Jerry it means a second chance!

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