A Memorandum of Cooperation was signed between the Department of cardiac surgery of M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital and the Departments of cardiac surgery of the leading Italian Hospital “Bambino Gesu” and Chinese “Hebei Provincial Children’s Hospital.
The Memorandum is aimed at providing joint training programs for medical personnel of the hospital, at joint management of particularly complicated cases and at training of young Georgian physicians in cardiac surgery hospitals of Italy and China.
The cardiac surgery department with 22 beds has functioned in M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital since September, 2015. The medical personnel of the department have got work experience in the cardiac surgery hospitals and medical centers of Italy, Russia, China and Germany. A team of Georgian and foreign surgeons have performed up to one hundred cardiac surgery operations in different cases of heart diseases.
Ambassadors of Italy and Vatican were present at signing of the Memorandum of Cooperation in M. Iashvili Children’s Central Hospital.