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Dos niños de Guinea Bissau recuperan la salud gracias a una cirugía cardíaca en Albacete con Fundación Recover

Autinha, de 11 años, y Sam, de 15, han sido operados en el Hospital Quirónsalud Albacete por el Dr. Gonzalo Aldamiz-Echevarría y su equipo, en el marco del programa Pacientes de Fundación Recover que ya ha permitido más de 100 intervenciones a pacientes africanos.
Foto de grupo. Visita de Marta a QS Albacete. Operación de Sam y Autinha

En el Hospital Quirónsalud Albacete han sido intervenidos Autinha, de 11 años, y Sam, de 15, dos jóvenes de Guinea Bissau que necesitaban cirugía cardíaca para recuperar su salud y su infancia.

Ambos niños fueron identificados en su país por AIDA ONG, presente en Guinea Bissau. Gracias a la alianza entre AIDA y Recover se pudo organizar su evacuación temporal para acceder a la atención especializada en España.

La operación estuvo a cargo del Dr. Gonzalo Aldamiz-Echevarría, patrono de Fundación Recover, y su equipo, que ya han realizado más de 100 intervenciones de corazón a pacientes africanos en el marco de este programa solidario.

En las imágenes de la visita que realizó la directora de Recover, Marta Marañón, se puede ver también al Dr. Aldamiz-Echevarría, a los voluntarios de Recover Pepe y Conchi, a la madre de Autinha y a las enfermeras Alicia y Elisabeth, que formaron parte del equipo de cuidados.

💚 Con el apoyo de hospitales, equipos médicos y personas comprometidas, Fundación Recover sigue trabajando para garantizar un acceso a la atención sanitaria digno y de calidad para las personas más vulnerables de África.

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Sahrawi refugee camps

Population > 200,000

0.5 Doctors/1000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

From 2025

2 health centres supported

Telemedicine, infrastructures

Incidence in 13,000 people

Sahrawi camps - kindergarten

Spain

6.21 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

Resource 7

1,024 health and management volunteers, and non-health volunteers, offering their expertise

8 partner hospitals in the country

Resource 9

More than 90 companies/entities have collaborated with their projects

Tanzania

0,1 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Operating theatre and other equipment, volunteering, telemedicine

Incidence in 10,140 people

Uganda

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

1 health centre supported

Telemedicine

Uganda context photo

South Sudan

0,4 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

2 health centres supported

Ophthalmology campaigns

Incidence in 15,000 people

Mobile Clinic H Yambio South Sudan

Republic of Chad

0,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

1 health centre supported

Grants for laboratory training and equipment, nutrition unit and patient intervention in Spain

Incidence in 10,000 people

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Equatorial Guinea

3,5 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2023

3 health centres supported

Telemedicine

Incidence in 1,000 people

Guinea Ecautorial context photo

Cameroon

1,24 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

71 health centres supported

Resource 10

Hospital management, electricity, water and sanitation infrastructure, health campaigns (child malnutrition, cervical cancer, cardiovascular risk, malaria, sickle cell disease), equipment (operating theatre, laboratory and physiotherapy equipment, X-ray machines, ultrasound machines, electrocardiograms, incubators, dental chairs, ambulances, etc.), training scholarships in Spain and Africa, telemedicine, intervention of 63 patients in Spain.

Incidence in 998,218 people

cameroon

Burundi

0,65 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2024

1 health centres supported

Reference anatomical pathology laboratory

Incidence in 78,031 people

Democratic Republic of Congo

3,7 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

7 health centres supported

Training in Spain, laboratory equipment, drinking water, photovoltaic energy and telemedicine

Incidence in 30,500 people

congo

Photo by Russell Watkins, Department for International Development

Burkina Faso

1 Doctor/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2007

3 health centres supported

Intervention for cardiac patients in Spain, telemedicine

Incidence in 60,000 people

Pielá - water well - Burkina Faso

Côte d'Ivoire

1,6 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2017

23 health centres supported

Telemedicine, hospital management, maternal and child health, mental health, sickle cell disease, diabetes

Incidence in 148,000 people

côte d'ivoire context

Benin

0,62 Doctors/10,000 Inhabitants

Resource 8

Since 2018

2 health centres intervened

Maternity infrastructure, drinking water, energy, ultrasound equipment, management

Incidence in 20,850 people

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