Medi­cal Aid
for Child­ren in Need

In ear­ly Novem­ber, a seven-mem­­ber team of doc­tors, mid­wi­ves, and nur­sing pro­fes­sio­nals was deploy­ed in Mendefera, Eritrea. The goal was to fur­ther impro­ve medi­cal care for mothers as well as pre­ma­tu­re and new­born infants and to streng­then obste­tric and neo­na­tal care in the long term.

Decem­ber invi­tes us to pau­se – and look back with gra­ti­tu­de on what we have been able to achie­ve tog­e­ther. Fit­tingly, the new edi­ti­on of our news­let­ter “On Cour­se” has been published!

They are only nine months old, iden­ti­cal twins – two girls, two iden­ti­cal dia­gno­ses, but wit­hout tre­at­ment hard­ly any future. With this dra­ma­tic initi­al situa­ti­on, the child­ren were pre­sen­ted in Octo­ber 2025 to the inter­na­tio­nal car­diac sur­gery team at Orot­ta Hos­pi­tal Asma­ra. The twins suf­fe­r­ed from a seve­re con­ge­ni­tal heart defect. This had alre­a­dy led to pul­mo­na­ry over­load and signi­fi­cant growth impair­ment.