Platts & Nisbett is proud to support the International Children’s Heart Foundation (ICHF), by providing surgical instruments for their mission trips around the world.

During a recent Babyheart mission trip to Najaf (Iraq), thirteen children received life saving operations which were carried out using Platts & Nisbett surgical instruments.

The team of twelve, which was led by Paediatric Cardiovascular Surgeon Dr William Novick, visited the Al-Sadr Teaching Hospital to treat children with congenital heart defects. In addition, the volunteer doctors and nurses worked alongside local staff, teaching them the latest techniques in order for them to offer this care themselves in the future.

The thirteen children, aged between two months and fifteen years, all received life saving operations which would not have been possible without the work of the International Children’s Heart Foundation. Doctor Novick and his team carried out various procedures, including Tetralogy of Fallot repair, Patent Ductus Arteriosis Ligation, and Atrioventricular Septal Defect Repair. ICHF has provided life changing care to these children, who now have the chance to go on and live normal happy lives.

Our surgical instruments have travelled around the world with the Babyheart team and aided ICHF in carrying out their life saving missions. We are pleased to play a part in such a worthy cause, and look forward to assisting further in the future.

To find out more about this Babyheart Mission Trip to Iraq, please click here. Trip Reports on future Babyheart Missions to many other places will follow.

For more information on the International Children’s Heart Foundation, please visit www.babyheart.org