Dear family members of the child.
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Welcome you to Fu Wai Hospital! This is the largest and best heart center in the country, and the one with the lowest mortality rate and the safest heart center in the country! Here, your child will receive the best treatment. Fu Wai Hospital also partners with several charitable groups to provide financial help to families in need.
With approximately 10,000 cardiac surgeries performed each year and a mortality rate of less than 1%, Fu Wai Hospital is the absolute leader in China. The Pediatric Center diagnoses and treats congenital heart disease in many ways, including diagnosis, treatment and research, and has extensive experience in the diagnosis and treatment of complex precardiac disease, under-aged and low-weight children, with treatment outcomes far ahead of other medical institutions in the industry nationwide. Pan Xiangbin, Department of Pediatric Cardiac Surgery, Fu Wai Hospital, Beijing
At present, there are about 1.5 million children with congenital heart disease (CHD) in China, and as many as 200,000 new cases each year. If children with congenital heart disease can be treated early, most of them can achieve satisfactory treatment results. Due to the constraints of economic conditions and treatment means, the proportion of children with early treatment is still very low. Even in several large heart centers in Beijing, the percentage of children who can receive surgical treatment at the right age is only 10-15%. A significant number of children have already missed the best time for surgery when they are seen, and some have already developed multiple secondary changes in the heart and lungs, which not only increases the risk of surgery, but also reduces the quality of survival after surgery, and some even die prematurely, while others are inoperable because the pulmonary artery pressure is too high, which is equivalent to being sentenced to a death sentence and can only wait painfully for death to come. Therefore, early diagnosis and treatment of precocious heart disease is very crucial.
In order to enhance the treatment of children with precocious heart disease, activities for early screening and early surgery of children with precocious heart disease have been carried out in different degrees throughout the country. Many charitable organizations and government departments have launched activities to help children with precocious heart disease, who are mostly unable to seek medical treatment due to financial difficulties of their families. It is reported that some places can reimburse a certain percentage or even the full amount for the treatment of precocious heart disease, but the relevant treatment must be carried out in the nearest local hospital.
All these policies have greatly promoted the treatment of congenital heart disease in China and brought blessings to many families in need. But some families who have enjoyed the preferential policies to do the congenital heart disease surgery regret it, what is the reason? It turns out that the medical standard of some local hospitals is not high, and some children have developed complications after treatment, and some of them even died unfortunately. As the top cardiac treatment center in China, Fu Wai Hospital receives some children like this, who are treated with surgery in their local vicinity for economic reasons, while the technical level of local surgery is poor and many related complications and problems arise, many local hospitals are unable to deal with serious complications, and the children still have to come all the way to Fu Wai Hospital for medical treatment. This has created a strange phenomenon: many families had the idea of spending less money and getting better, but in the end, the child had more serious problems and had to spend more money to come to Fu Wai Hospital for treatment, which resulted in more money than the initial surgery at Fu Wai Hospital, and the child was faced with the pain of multiple surgeries, and even then, the results were not good. Many parents regret that they would have preferred to go directly to FWUH for treatment, as medical treatment can be guaranteed.
It is true that the cost of treatment in the vicinity can be maximized, especially when government departments and charities that fund treatment for families in need are more concerned about helping more children with limited funds, but heart surgery is not an ordinary operation, and the treatment of precardiac disease is more complex. This is something that cannot be achieved by local hospitals in general. Not to mention that Fu Wai Hospital has a variety of advanced treatment options, perfect equipment, and experienced physicians, just in terms of the volume of surgery, many local hospitals do not operate as much as Fu Wai Hospital does in a month.
Many parents came to the realization that the cost of 30,000 yuan is nothing compared to the life of their child. Many parents give up and would rather come all the way to Beijing and endure the hardships of the crowded queues in order to receive treatment at Fu Wai Hospital for the sake of full funding. The government and charitable organizations also understand in practice that the quality of medical care is the core of the rescue operation, otherwise poor quality surgery not only costs more money, but also fails to achieve the purpose of the rescue. Therefore, many local governments have revised their policies to allow medical insurance to cover 60-70% of the cost of a visit to Fu Wai Hospital. Many charitable organizations have approached Fu Wai Hospital and asked to cooperate with it on a fixed basis and to provide fast access to medical treatment for families in need. In order to let more children enjoy the treatment by the best technical team in the country, Fu Wai Hospital will do its best to help children with precardiac disease to be cured of heart disease in the shortest time, at the most economical cost and with the most suitable plan for the child.
At present, we have joined hands with many foundations, governmental organizations and health departments to provide assistance to children with precocious heart disease who have difficulties in their families, not only by providing financial support for medical expenses, but also by developing individualized treatment plans by experienced specialists according to the conditions of the children. We even provide assistance for families in need of housing and care in Beijing before and after surgery. For more information about the assistance, please register here.