The Media and Awareness Office of the Department of Support and Development of Medical Services (DSDMS) confirmed, in an exclusive interview with the Libya Herald, the arrival of the visiting Italian medical team specialising in paediatric heart defects to the Heart Hospital in Tajoura. Use of visiting doctors for locally untreatable conditionsThe DSDMS’s Media and Awareness Office said that it seeks to localise this type of treatment and operations in several major hospitals in Libya. This plan aims to treat patients, especially those with heart and arterial diseases, and some other diseases, for which there is no treatment inside Libya. During the meeting, the DSDMS had reported, it was agreed to start implementing the localisation of treatment programme in the specialty of paediatric heart surgery, starting from September, in several public health centres across Libya. Italy agrees long term programme of implementing children’s heart surgery across Libya (libyaherald.com)
