19 November 2009
Prague, Nov 18 (CTK) - Two Cambodian children arrived in the Czech Republic on Tuesday to undergo heart operations within the Medevac humanitarian programme, Czech Interior Ministry spokesman Vladimir Repka told CTK Wednesday.
Two three-year-old boys with inborn heart defects will be treated in Prague's Motol Teaching Hospital Children's Cardio-Centre. At present, they are in pre-operative quarantine care, Repka said.
Under the Medevac programme ill children from areas of conflict and from locations where the necessary health care is not available receive treatment in the Czech Republic.
Children from the countries in which Czech military missions operate are primarily selected for the treatment.
The Medevac programme has been functioning since 1993. Within it, 124 foreign children have received treatment in Czech hospitals until the end of last year.
So far, the Medevac programme helped children from Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Pakistan and Chechnya. Young patients are more selected for treatment by Czech doctors.
Children are usually accompanied by one legal representative whose written consent to surgery is necessary.
The Interior Ministry has proposed that the children and the people who accompany them have the status of asylum seekers on Czech territory. This would facilitate the payment of the operation and post-operation treatment costs so that they are not paid from the Czech public health insurance.
Last year, 13 patients from Afghanistan received treatment in the Czech Republic within Medevac. Most of them suffered from heart and orthopedic defects.
Prague, Nov 18 (CTK) - Two Cambodian children arrived in the Czech Republic on Tuesday to undergo heart operations within the Medevac humanitarian programme, Czech Interior Ministry spokesman Vladimir Repka told CTK Wednesday.
Two three-year-old boys with inborn heart defects will be treated in Prague's Motol Teaching Hospital Children's Cardio-Centre. At present, they are in pre-operative quarantine care, Repka said.
Under the Medevac programme ill children from areas of conflict and from locations where the necessary health care is not available receive treatment in the Czech Republic.
Children from the countries in which Czech military missions operate are primarily selected for the treatment.
The Medevac programme has been functioning since 1993. Within it, 124 foreign children have received treatment in Czech hospitals until the end of last year.
So far, the Medevac programme helped children from Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Pakistan and Chechnya. Young patients are more selected for treatment by Czech doctors.
Children are usually accompanied by one legal representative whose written consent to surgery is necessary.
The Interior Ministry has proposed that the children and the people who accompany them have the status of asylum seekers on Czech territory. This would facilitate the payment of the operation and post-operation treatment costs so that they are not paid from the Czech public health insurance.
Last year, 13 patients from Afghanistan received treatment in the Czech Republic within Medevac. Most of them suffered from heart and orthopedic defects.
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