Article Author: AKU holds golf tournament to help treat children with CHD
Media Source: The Express Tribune (Pakistan)
Date: 26 January 2020
On 26 January in Karachi, over a hundred members of civil society participated in a golf tournament to support the Aga Khan University’s (AKU) efforts to expand access to healthcare for children born with congenital heart defects (CHD). According to AKU, an estimated 60,000 babies are born with CHD (holes in the heart) in Pakistan every year. A third of these infants need immediate life-saving surgery. To date, AKU has spent Rs570 million to provide treatment to over 2,300 children from financially disadvantaged families. AKU’s Mending Kids’ Hearts campaign has been working since 2016 to raise awareness of CHD in children, as well as to gather funds to support them. It is a part of AKU’s efforts to achieve targets set by Goal 3 of the Sustainable Development Goals, which seeks to eliminate preventable causes of death in children by 2030.
