English visits health projects in Venezuela and Chile

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In November and December this year, Dr Englisch, a member of Tulisa’s Executive Board, visited two interesting and successful health projects for children and families in Caracas and Santiago de Chile as part of a business trip to discuss a partnership with Tulisa.
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pfeil_nach_oben Source: Fundación “De todo Corazón Richard
Gibson”

In Caracas, he met with Ms Claudia Scanzoni from the Venezuelan charitable foundation: “De todo Corazon Richard Gibson” fundaciondetodocorazon.blogspot.com, which performs free heart surgery on children from low-income backgrounds at a state-of-the-art paediatric cardiology department in Maracaibo, in the north of the country. The foundation was established by the Canadian heart surgeon Richard Gibson whilst he was working in Venezuela.

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Given that Venezuela’s public health system is now barely functioning, this work is of the utmost importance in ensuring that children with heart conditions can receive appropriate surgery free of charge. Ms Claudia Scanzoni, the motivated and competent project manager at the headquarters in Caracas, made a strong impression during the visit with her dynamic and convincing manner in this country ravaged by economic crises!

pfeil_nach_links Claudia Scanzoni

In Santiago de Chile, Dr Englisch then visited the ‘Cristo Vive’ foundation, which has been run by the German nun Sister Karoline Meyer for over 40 years,  www.cristovive.de, and was impressed by the foundation’s outstanding work – Sister Karoline explained the roles of the various departments at her centre, ranging from the nursery and vocational training to the health centre.

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pfeil_nach_oben Sister Karoline (left), full of energy and drive

In addition to crèches, nurseries and after-school care centres, educational institutions and vocational training centres, the foundation also runs polyclinics, health centres and centres for the treatment of people with addictions. In Chile, this takes the form of a health centre offering family medicine with GPs and paediatricians, as well as other specialists, and which is integrated into Chile’s public health system. Dr Robert Hartog, a German GP and specialist in public health, has been working here for many years and gave Dr Englisch a tour of the clinic.

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pfeil_nach_oben Dr Robert Hartog, who has been working at the health centre for many years…
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pfeil_nach_oben …and his cheerful patients

Tulisa looks forward to collaborating with Cristos Vive on cases involving children’s health issues.