In Karachi, Pakistan's National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases has quietly crossed a threshold that would have seemed impossible five years ago: five hundred children with potentially fatal heart rhythm disorders have received life-saving treatment, entirely free of charge, through a program that did not exist before 2021. Where families once faced the impossible choice between unaffordable private care and no care at all, a dedicated pediatric electrophysiology program now offers precision medicine — catheter ablation, pacemakers, genetic risk management — at zero cost to patients. The
Pakistan's NICVD hits 500 pediatric heart rhythm surgeries, all free
500 children with potentially fatal heart rhythm disorders have received life-saving treatment that was previously unavailable in Pakistan, preventing sudden cardiac deaths in otherwise healthy children.
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