Israeli NGOs Save Lives Of South Sudanese Children With Urgent Heart Surgeries

The Israeli team in South Sudan. The four children picked to undergo procedures in Israel were successfully treated by Save a Child’s Heart at the Sylvan Adams Children’s Hospital and the Ida Cabakoff International Pediatric Cardiac Center. SAVE A CHILD'S HEART.

In November 2022, representatives of two Israeli non-governmental humanitarian organizations — Save a Child’s Heart and IsraAID — traveled to crisis-hit South Sudan for a special mission. The delegation screened dozens of children for congenital heart defects to identify those with the most severe symptoms and bring them to Israel for lifesaving surgeries. 

Save a Child’s Heart was founded at Wolfson Medical Center in Holon in 1995 to treat children from countries where access to pediatric cardiac care is limited or nonexistent. IsraAID is a humanitarian aid organization that has responded to emergencies in 56 countries since its founding in 2001.