> An interview with professor sir Magdi Yacoub
about the chain of hope
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At first the interviewer asked professor magdi about it which was first set up
in France...
Professor Yacoub said that it helped children with heart disease. He added that
it brought sick children from poor countries which do not have the medical
facilities to the UK and
other centers in Europe where top surgeons and
medical teams treat them free of charge
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when the interviewer asked him how they found out about those sick children professor
Yacoub said that an organization called medicines du monde in France collected
information from doctors who knew of those children.
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the interviewer asked him how they get a child from a remote village and who
paid for the journey he explained that many airlines carried the children for
free and a lot of people donated money and that host families looked after them
before and after their operation so the children felt loved and cared for
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When he was asked if the chain of hope worked in Egypt too? He said that there was a
very important centre in Egypt.
He gave example of very sick girl called Fwzia who had a hole in the heart. She
was sent to Abu Rish children's hospital in Cairo where a team of experts operated on her
at no charge. She had now recovered