50% of children born with heart defects will need heart surgery at sometime in their life. Of the 50%, 35% need surgery in the first month or they die.
Today is the last day of April, the first 4 months of the year have passed and we will have operated on 284 children since January 1, 2012. Not exactly where we wanted to be at this point in the year, but not too far behind our goal of 1,000 children for the year. The total number of children since our programs started in 1993 is rapidly approaching 6,500! We will pass that milestone sometime in June. Help us help more children, make a donation, large or small.