Hearts4Kids Trust

Dear Supporter

Our Hearts4Kids trip to Fiji last year was so successful that we have been invited to do two trips this year - July and October. However, to achieve this doubling of our service, we need your help!

Last year Pasifika Medical Association supported us strategically and financially, bringing children from five Pacific islands to Suva for heart surgery. Having recognised that this is a more cost-efficient and family-friendly way to provide cardiac surgery in the Pacific, PMA will again collaborate with us. However, two trips increases our costs - we need to raise another $50,000, which will enable us to do twice as many operations - 30 children.

We have recruited two teams by including colleagues from Australia and we believe this will make us stronger and create a more sustainable workforce for the future, as we gradually train medical and nursing professionals in the Pacific in the complexities of cardiac surgical care.

All 15 children from 2024 are doing well. Starship Cardiologists are already referring children in need of surgery from the Outreach Clinics they have done. We hope to offer more of our young Pacific neighbours with simple heart defects a timely repair, a safe recovery, and a good quality of life afterwards.

We hope you will again be able to support us.

With heartfelt thanks

Bula Vinaka

Kirsten Finucane

Paediatric and Congenital Cardiac Surgeon