The Aims and Objectives:
- With the support and advice of medical experts, to provide health education and the necessary interventionist facilities for primary prevention of Acute Rheumatic Fever (ARF).
- To provide facilities for medical experts to conduct well-planned surveys to identify infants and children suffering from congenital heart disease, very prevalent in the higher regions of Ladakh, and give such sufferers all possible help.
- To enable the provision of secondary prophylaxis for those already suffering from rheumatic heart disease and to render all possible help in organizing surgical treatment in tertiary referral centers.
- To establish an efficient emergency service, with two mobile ambulance units. One to be provided with the latest resuscitation and First-aid equipment, the other to be equipped with portable X-ray and ultrasound machines, ECG and equipment for minor emergency surgery so that medical experts can serve the remote villages of Ladakh.
- To give health education in the prevention of Acute Respiratory Infection (ARI) and Acute Gastro-enteritis, the two childhood killer diseases.
- To provide medical care and support for sick children and their parents, with particular emphasis on heart problems. To offer such care to all children, regardless and religion, caste or financial status.
- To offer advice and support to heart patients whose condition is inoperable.
- To conduct research into heart problems that are specific to children born at high altitude, with the aim of reducing the incidence of such problems.
e several accounts of what the Ladakh Heart Foundation has undertaken and achieved over the last three years...
