Former German international, Gerald Asamoah says goodbye to 35 doctors and nurses he brought to Ghana from Germany to provide free heart surgery for 27 children.
The Gerald Asamoah Foundation collaborated with a German charity Kinderherzen and the National Cardiothoracic Centre of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital.
The player of Ghanaian descent decided to pay back his dues to his motherland after bringing 35 professional doctors to Ghana to help some needy children.
The help the formal German forward is giving Ghana is in the form of operating 28 children free of charge on various heart surgeries.
The surgeries were 5 open heart procedures and 22 key hole procedures and the beneficiaries were infants from birth to six(6)months of age.
The 35 doctors and nurses arrived in Ghana ahead of their annual free open heart surgeries program .
It is important to note that the 28 beneficiaries have already been selected.
Mr. Gerald Asamoah, said he was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect when he was 18 and has never forgotten his roots.
The foundation for the less privileged with congenital Heart disease was founded in 2007 and has since supported more than two hundred (200) children suffering from such conditions.
The cost of operating on these 28 children is estimate to be around €250,000.
