Cardiac Kids of Florida – Jamaica Heart Mission
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- Website: https://cardiackidsfl.com
- Location(s): Bustamante Children’s Hospital, Kingston, Jamaica
- Frequency: yearly in late winter/early Spring
- Length: 5 clinical days, 7-8 days total
- Anesthesia services needed: Pediatric cardiac anesthesia for OR and cardiac catheterization lab
- Contact info: https://cardiackidsfl.com/contact/
- Requirements: Qualified pediatric cardiac anesthesiologist
- Cost: Travel, hotel, and meals included
- Mission statement: Over the last 17 years, the mission work has endowed the medical and surgical teams at the Bustamante Hospital for Children with the knowledge, training, and skills needed to continue saving lives well into the future.
- CCAS Members with Experience with this Organization: David Vener
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- Website: https://cardiostart.org/
- Location(s): Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Peru, Tanzania, Egypt, Nigeria, Ghana
- Length: 1-2 weeks
- Anesthesia services needed: adult and pediatric anesthesiologists for pediatric and adult patients presenting congenital and acquired cardiac surgery
- Contact info: https://cardiostart.org/volunteers/
- Mission statement: Our Mission is to educate and assist local medical teams in providing heart surgery and cardiac services to adults and children in underserved regions of the world. Our Vision is a world where access to cardiac care can be realized by everyone.
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- Website: https://www.chainofhope.org/
- Locations: Jamaica, Ethiopia, Uganda, Jordan
- Length: 7 days
- Requirements: current medical license, degree certificates, professional references, DBS check (Disclosure and Barring Services), Curriculum Vitae
- Contact info: [email protected], [email protected], application form available at https://www.chainofhope.org/what-you-can-do/medical-volunteers/
- Cost: Chain of Hope covers all expenses, including accommodations, airfare, travel insurance, local travel and all meals
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- Website: https://beta.corazondenino.org/
- Location(s): Baja California Sur, Mexico
- Anesthesia services needed
- Contact info: https://beta.corazondenino.org/contacto
- Mission statement: Provide support to children and young people in Mexico, diagnosed with a heart disease, making available to them the treatments indicated for their condition, as well as follow-up that helps to improve their quality of life.
- We have the medical program available in 3 regions within Mexico: -Los Cabos, Baja California Sur, -Cancún, Quintana Roo,
-Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco
- Website: https://cardiac-alliance.org/
- Location(s): Democratic Republic of Congo, Ukraine, India, Lebanon, Rwanda, Iraq, Ecuador, Russia, Libya, Ethiopia, Dominican Republic
- Frequency: 6 times per year
- Length: 1-2 weeks
- Anesthesia services needed: anesthesiologists, anesthesia nurses, intensivists, medical students, residents, fellows
- Contact info: volunteer form at https://cardiac-alliance.org/volunteer/
- The Novick Cardiac Alliance is committed to bringing sustainable health care solutions to children with cardiac disease in the Low-and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC).
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- Website: https://heartgift.org
- Location(s): Kenya, Bolivia
- Frequency: variable
- Length: 1 week
- Anesthesia services needed: pediatric cardiac anesthesia
- Requirements: pediatric CV anesthesia fellows in training, faculty
- Cost: no financial obligation
- Contact info: https://heartgift.org/contact/#form
- Mission statement: HeartGift provides life-saving congenital heart surgery to children from around the world where specialized medical treatment is either scarce or nonexistent.
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- Website: voomfoundation.org
- Location(s): Nigeria
- Frequency: two 2-week trips per year for pediatric open-heart and interventional cardiology (May and September)
- Length: 1-2 weeks
- Anesthesia services needed: anesthesiologists, CRNAs, perfusionists
- Requirements: 2 years professional experience, experience in teaching/training, passport, VISA entry, vaccines (COVID)
- Cost: Mission staff responsible for international airline ticket and entry VISA into Nigeria. Hotel, food, and local transportation provided
- Contact info: Shawn Andaya-Pulliam, [email protected]
- Mission statement: The VOOM Foundation is a U.S.-based 501(c)(3) non-profit organization with the mission to provide impartial, sustainable healthcare programs dedicated to quality, with a particular focus on supporting the underprivileged and underserved in Africa. VOOM’s long-term vision is to raise the standard of healthcare in Nigeria through education and training at healthcare facilities that care for all patients, regardless of their ability to pay.
