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05-15-2007, 01:20 PM
16 children with heart problems were operated on at the Arturo Grullon Children's Hospital in Santiago de los Caballeros last week. The operation was organized by Corazones Unidos del Cibao and the Public Health Ministry. All told, some 500 children have benefited from the program called "A Heartbeat for Vanessa" according to Juan Ramirez, the organization's president. The program has the support of doctors from Albany, New York and Lansing, Michigan who came to the city for the fifth time. The doctors work with their Dominican colleagues on these operations. All in all, 25 children were evaluated and sixteen were subjects that required operations. The value of the operations is far beyond most parents' capacity to pay, costing over RD$300,000 each, or a total of RD$4.8 million.
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