Ulaanbaatar
Mongolian clinic performs 228 open heart surgeries a year
PoliticsUlaanbaatar /MONTSAME/ The State Central Third Clinic is the only hospital on national level that provides complete medical services in connection with cardiac operations. The number of open heart surgery with artificial circulation per year hit 228, the largest number ever in Mongolia, in 2016.
In the past five years, a total of 137,301 patients received specialized medical services from the Clinic, including cardiac diagnosis, treatment and surgeries. Among them, 6,643 patients received in-patient treatment and 3,887 received heart operations. In the same period, 571 surgeries were carried out to operate on children’s congenital and acquired heart defects.
A goal was set by the clinic, in the margin of the MOH005 Project on Cardiovascular Center, Health of Mothers and Infants and Expaction of Online Healthcare, to achieve a performance level, where the clinic would be able to perform one heart surgery per day and 250 per year. The project is assisted by the Government of Luxembourg.
Achieving such a large number of successful heart operations was especially thanks to the efforts and collaboration of the National Institute of Cardiac Surgery and Interventional Cardiology of Luxembourg, the Heart Foundation of the Republic of Korea, Yonsei Severance Hospital and the team of thoracic surgery professors of the Seoul National University.
The surgical team of the state clinic has been working with the abovementioned institutes on 5-6 trainings of heart operation each year, and has collectively been ensuring that 20-30 children in need received expensive heart operations for free every year.
Out of all 228 open heart surgeries, 158 were performed on adults, 70—on infants and children. Thirteen of the open heart surgeries with blood transfusions on children were for the treatment of chronic cardiovascular conditions. The 75 percent of costs of the operations were covered by the Government of Mongolia, pursuant to the revised Health Insurance Law, and the rest were funded by Rafael International NGO of the Republic of Korea.
Source: Ministry of Health
