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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Upcoming Missions
Mission to develop pediatric and adult congenital heart surgery
Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania • January 11th – 25th, 2020
We have pleasure in announcing the return mission to JKCI (The Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute), Dar Es Salaam. Volunteers will be enlisted from previous waiting list files, and on a first come, first served basis.
Mission to Kumasi, Ghana
January 10th-17th, 2020
CardioStart International Board and International Missions Committee is proud to announce its 2020 mission to Kumasi, Ghana at Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).
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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Recent News
Mission Report – Pediatric Heart Surgery Mission in Guayaquil, Ecuador
On this occasion, CardioStart’s International mission team made a return visit to the Hospital del Nino Dr. Francisco de Icaza Bustamante in Guayaquil, Ecuador on invitation by the hospital Administration, arranged by the Fundacion El Cielo Para Los Ninos del Ecuador.
CardioStart Remembers Brigid Scanlan Eiynck
Brigid Scanlan Eiynck died recently, and up until her death, was a senior Vice President for the prestigious company Scanlan International, considered to be the finest surgery instrument maker in the world.
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CardioStart Remembers Julie Pierrepont
A resident of Brookings, Oregon, USA, she spent her retirement, knitting – not sweaters, scarves for herself or her family, but for children around the world.
Mission to Legazpi City, Philippines
Legpazi City is the regional center and largest city of the Bicol Region. This will be CardioStart’s first mission to the Philippines! And you are invited!!!
