What
Project Needs and Beneficiaries
Poor children born with cardiac problems need surgery, but have trouble getting care from public hospitals, which lack physical and infrastructural resources. A large number of poor children born with cardiac problems die waiting for treatment. If they do receive treatment from the public health system, it is generally by doctors without adequate skills. When the case is complex, treatment can endanger rather than improve the child's condition. Rio has no children’s hospital.
Activities
Each child undergoes a detailed assessment consisting of medical examinations, ECG, and echocardiogram. Diagnosis and treatment are carried out by a professional team of specialists. Once the diagnosis is made the treatment is determined.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $780
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $20,220
Total Funding Goal: $21,000
Additional Documentation
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Why
Potential Long Term Impact
There is nothing sadder than a parent who is unable to save a dying child simply because he does not have the financial resources required. Every life is precious.
Project Message
Taking care of these young lives, we learn that being able to serve is a great privilege: the privilege to replace with a smile the expression of pain on... a child suffering from heart disease.
- Dr.Rosa Célia Pimentel Barbosa, Founder and Director of ProCrianca Cardiaca
Who
ContactChristine Clauser,Director of Development - Dreams Can Be Foundation Dreams Can Be Foundation 945 Menoher Blvd. Johnstown, United States PA 15905 United States (814) 255 4379 Email: Project SponsorDreams Can Be Foundation/Dreams Brasil |
Organization
Learn more about Dreams Can Be Foundation and the project team. |
Where
Country
This project is located in 
Brazil
and can also be found under 
Health.
For more information about Brazil, read the Human Development Report on Brazil or the Wikipedia entry for Brazil.
When
Last Updated
This project was last updated on March 19, 2008.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 04, 2007.
Latest Update from the Field
Update on Procrianca
By Christine Clauser - Director of Development , March 19, 2008 05:37 PM
The Procrianca Foundation continues to perform heart surgeries for children from poor families. The hospital is also focusing on building a hospital that will provide state of the art surgeries in a setting that will offer their services to the community that can pay that will offset the nonprofit work that they perform.
In eleven years of work (1996-2007), Pró Criança Cardíaca has achieved the following results:
Odontological Appointments 1,028
Clinical Treatments 139
Catheterizations 258
General Surgeries 259
Cardiac Surgeries 619
Echocardiograms 4,142
Electrocardiograms 4,086
Total Number of Children Treated 11,338
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