Strengthening pediatric heart care
India is the world’s most populous country. With 1.42 billion people, it’s also one of the world’s fastest-growing economies. Yet the country still struggles with poverty, and children with congenital heart disease face a shortage of pediatric specialists and uneven access to medical care.
Even more sobering, approximately 130 pediatric cardiologists work in the entire country, compared to 72 at Boston Children’s Hospital alone.
The need: by the numbers
babies are born with congenital heart disease (CHD) each year in India
children who need heart surgery receives optimal care
The year 2000 marked the beginning of our groundbreaking partnerships in India.
Children’s HeartLink’s partnerships in India go back nearly 25 years and include our first-ever Center of Excellence and first-ever regional training partner. Through the partnerships we’ve built and their successes, Children’s HeartLink is held in high regard among the pediatric cardiac care community in India.
Our significant investment in India is paying dividends on the lives being saved and served—both in children reached and clinician teams trained.
With eight hospital partners, two of which are Children’s HeartLink Centers of Excellence, and a solid foundation, we are making a sustainable and impactful difference in the lives of hundreds of thousands of children with heart disease.
In India, approximately 240,000 children are born with congenital heart disease annually, and there is an urgent need for an estimated 144,000 infants to have heart procedures each year. 90% of children born with congenital heart disease lack access to the heart care they desperately need.
Children’s HeartLink’s goal of developing 12 Children’s HeartLink Centers of Excellence in India by 2030 is designed to address this need.
Our Partner Hospitals
Amrita Hospital, Faridabad
2023
1,646
Amrita Hospital, Kochi
2000
9,712
G. Kuppuswamy Naidu Memorial Hospital
2017
4,472
Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Cardiac Sciences
2002
22,946
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital
2019
6,050
Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research
2012
6,593
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences
2015
10,009
Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Centre for Child Heart Care
2023
7,699
Volunteer training teams
- Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Children’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Children’s Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota, USA
- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, USA
