Medolla (MO), July 2019 – A project dedicated to the treatment of pediatric heart diseases: Eurosets, a company specialized in the design, production, and commercialization of biomedical devices, embraces the “Cuore Aperto” mission of the NGO POBIC Onlus (Projects and Charity Works for Interventions in Heart Diseases) in Nigeria. The collaboration between POBIC and Eurosets aims to promote the development and strengthening of healthcare services in Nigeria by exporting Italian cardiac surgery culture to empower local specialists through training sessions.
“Eurosets has embarked on a path that entails an increasing commitment to Social Responsibility, considering it a primary objective and value of the company. Thanks to the collaboration with POBIC and their years of experience in humanitarian missions, we can take a further step towards this goal,” comments Antonio Petralia, CEO of Eurosets. The humanitarian project “Cuore Aperto” operates in various African countries with two missions per year since 2013, and Eurosets is active alongside POBIC to support pediatric cardiac surgeries by providing biomedical devices and training local medical and paramedical staff on-site in extracorporeal perfusion techniques used in cardiac surgery.
The sixth POBIC mission at the University Hospital of Ituku in Enugu State, Nigeria, recently concluded: from May 12 to 16, 2019, a team of volunteer medical professionals, including cardiac surgeons, cardiologists, perfusionists, and anesthetists, provided specialist consultations and pediatric surgeries using Eurosets biomedical devices.
Eurosets has also confirmed its participation in the seventh mission, presented to the Federal Ministry of Health, which will take place from November 6 to 16, with the project “Cuore Aperto Alta Formazione Sanitaria,” aimed at training local medical personnel in the use of Eurosets devices used in surgery for cardiopulmonary oxygenation and ECMO (extracorporeal membrane oxygenation).