Our Mission is to educate and assist local medical teams in providing heart surgery and cardiac services to adults and children in underserved regions of the world.
Our Vision is a world where access to cardiac care can be realized by everyone.
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Celebrating 30 Years of Global Volunteer Heart Care!
1987-2017

World Tour
- 999 Corrective Surgeries
- 57 Containers of medical supplies
- 3757 Field Patients
- 1500+ Volunteers
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Tanzania 2022 Mission Report
After a year of COVID restriction, CardioStart was finally able to return to missions and a fourth return mission to The Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute.
Introducing New CardioStart Board Members
Nicola holds an MBA from IE Business School and a Cyber Security for Business Leaders certification from Oxford University. She is passionate about equality having co-chaired the LGBT Latin America Network for Mastercard and is also an Ambassador for the UK’s Women of the Future programme.
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Nigeria 2022 Mission Report
On October 8th, 2022, CardioStart International embarked on one of our most collaborative efforts to date in Nigeria with two of our valued University hospital partners, advancing 3 distinct programs in 2 different states: University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital in Enugu (UNTH) and Lagos State University Teaching Hospital in Lagos (LASUTH).