(December 22, 2016) it is the result of a commitment Italian humanitarian foundation, the Ehc (European Heart for Children) based in Nice at the European Society of Cardiology, the first and only center in Morocco that will treat children with congenital heart disease which well affect 5,000 new cases a year. The task force will be made in the next year and interventions on patients with small teams formed and high level instrumentation will be possible as early as 2018. The announcement of the closing of the 77 th Sic Congress works held in Rome at the presence of 2,500 specialists, under the chairmanship of prof. Francesco Romeo who enthusiastically joined the humanitarian project of Ehc Foundation. “I conceived the idea of this Foundation during my office as president of the European Society of Cardiology – said prof. Roberto Ferrari, director of Cardiology, University of Ferrara and member of the Board of Ehc – since 2009, with funds raised during congresses and individual benefactors, we visited more than 2,100 children, almost 300 ones operated and saved, 9 brought to Italy for complex surgeries “. (Red)
