On June 12, with the cooperation of the Department of Anesthesiology, Ultrasound and Operating Room, doctors from the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University carried out minimally invasive cardiac surgery for children from Guyuan and Jinyuan one after another. Most of the children had congenital heart disease ventricular septal and atrial septal defects, and their ages ranged from 2 to 10 years old. In recent years, the incidence of congenital heart disease has been increasing, especially for children in rural areas, which has a great impact and causes great damage both physically and psychologically. In the cardiothoracic surgery ward 13, bed 39, the reporter saw the 8-year-old girl Li Xiaoya from the original state of Guyuan, who had just finished surgery. The child’s father Li Zhenglong told reporters: “Xiaoya 1.5 years old often cold, fever, poor health, then in our hospital there, the doctor said congenital heart disease, to Xi’an to see, more than 60,000 yuan, the family simply do not have so much money, the medical treatment on hold.” This time, Li Xiaoya was lucky to meet doctors from the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department of the General Hospital of Ningxia Medical University who went to the countryside to map the situation. After examination, Li Xiaoya met all the conditions for surgery. Her parents brought her with them to Yinchuan to see the doctor. From admission to the end of the surgery, it only cost more than 6,000 yuan. In fact, the hospital started to undertake medical coverage for children with major diseases in the autonomous region since January 2012. Up to now, more than 310 heart surgeries have been performed, 220 of which were congenital heart surgeries, while more than 120 surgeries were performed with new technology, with a 100% success rate. ”To treat congenital heart disease, traditional surgery can only do 2 units a day, while the new technology, which uses minimally invasive transthoracic blocking technology, can perform 8 to 10 units a day.” Su Jinlin, deputy director of the hospital’s cardiothoracic surgery department, said. Minimally innovative technology, three days can be discharged from the hospital What are the advantages of this new technology compared with traditional surgery? Minimally invasive transthoracic blocking technology is to avoid the deformity of the chest healing scar caused by conventional heart surgery incision, this surgery does not need to open the heart, no extracorporeal circulation, reducing the damage to the child’s various organs, the operation time is very short, about three days after the surgery can be discharged, the hospitalization time and the past week compared to significantly shorten, the cost is significantly reduced. ”Conventional heart surgery incisions require more than 10 centimeters, while minimally invasive transthoracic occlusion requires only 2 centimeters. This not only makes the incision aesthetically pleasing, but the child recovers quickly. The key thing is that it uses ultrasound technology to avoid the radiation of the past. Minimally invasive transthoracic occlusion technology can treat more than 80 percent of congenital heart diseases with excellent results.” Most parents don’t know about the aid program, doctors look around for children “In early June, our medical staff came to the villagers’ homes in Guyuan Yuanzhou District, Jingyuan, Lunde and Hongshibao, etc. After a week of mapping in the countryside, half of the children suitable for the operation were screened out from more than 200 children. In the mapping, it was found that most parents do not know that the state and autonomous regions have projects of major disease relief, not to mention the advanced treatment technology in our region.” Su Jinlin introduced. ”In the treatment of major childhood diseases, many families delay the treatment of their children due to financial reasons. In fact, for congenital heart disease and leukemia, the autonomous region has especially introduced the “Autonomous Region of Children’s Major Diseases Medical Security Implementation Rules”, for these two major diseases all urban and rural children aged 0 to 14 years old who participate in basic medical insurance can go to the hospital for treatment and spend only a small part of the money to get good treatment. In addition to the district-level relief programs, the state also has ‘Shenhua Love Action’, ‘Beijing Jackie Chan Fund’, and ‘China Red Cross Precocious Heart Disease Relief’, all of which are for children with major disease relief The program.” ”In the past, children had no money to treat their illnesses, but now the state and the autonomous region have many major disease relief programs, and the hospital has new treatment technologies that are second to none in the northwest, but many parents with children at home do not know that we are looking around for children to have surgery. Whether in rural or urban areas, if you find that your child is not feeling well, bring them to the hospital for consultation and treatment as soon as possible.” Su Jinlin said.