Second Update on the 3rd Operation Braveheart Project

 

Operation Braveheart III continues to facilitate the repair of indigent patients' heart defects.  This is my SECOND report for Operation Braveheart III. I am sending with this email a collage of the second set of eight patients that Dr. Jonas repaired from October to December 2022. Seven of the eight patients are children, one is an adult. Note that in addition to the 5 PDA's and two VSD's, Dr. Jonas also repaired a patient with a Right Coronary artery fistula, an abnormal connection between the right coronary artery (that supplies blood to the heart) and another blood vessel or heart chamber. 

 

You will notice on the collage that one of the children has a cleft lip that needs to be repaired. 

 

On our visit to the Philippines this February 2023, my wife Luz and I hope to get together with some of the children  who have been repaired. Together with our Rotary partners in the Philippines, the Rotary Club  of Makati Southeast, we plan on a get-together with as many of our Braveheart children as possible in the Plenary Hall of the new Henry Sy Medical Science Building at the UP College of Medicine. We have been granted permission to use this hall. It is situated on the same campus as the Philippine General Hospital where the patients' hearts are repaired.

 

As of today, Operation Braveheart has facilitated the transcatheter repair of 188 patients.

 

Thank you very much for your continued support.