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.
Little Mohammed Bakir is 6 years old from Basra who loves to collect and play with toy race cars. Although Mohammed is a resilient child, he suffers from a complex congenital heart disease known as Tetralogy of Fallot. He received a life-saving corrective surgery from our Babyheart team. He smiled the whole way through recovery!