Empower a Heart, Save a Life: The Honduras Open Heart Surgery Initiative
Since 2019, a global health initiative in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, has been empowering local healthcare professionals to perform essential open heart surgeries, crucial in a country where such medical care is rare and desperately needed. Facing challenges like the high cost of surgeries against the backdrop of low average incomes, the program aims to develop local expertise while contending with economic barriers, and in 2024, it plans an ambitious mission with teams from Duke and Harvard, seeking contributions to continue saving lives and enhancing cardiac care in Honduras.