Our living realist and aspiration review on cardiac surgery practice of alNassirriah heart center

الملخص EN

Cardiac surgery in our country is a major challenge through maintaining high quality of surgical needs of a very long wait list of the patients while dealing with hindrance budgetary constraints.

It has been estimated that approximately 20000 patients (adult & pediatric) per year need operations all over Iraq.

Around 1000 patients registrant in NHC however these figure are unaudited statistically the problem could be large magnitude.

30 months of our cardiac surgery department & 200 surgeries done till end of Oct 2011 more than half in participate with foreigners teams.

Although the surgical skills have become evolve the basic problem in chiefly results matching those achieved in developed countries centers around finding the fund to run the building programs & retaining trained staff to achieve Excellency.

We can afford cardiac surgery as it's known to developed world when we find the real support for sustenance.