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UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA
Press Release WHO/72
Information Centre
23 June 1950 ,
WO.iLD H2ALTH ORGANIZATION
TOO Heart Specialists on Tour of Austria and Yugoslavia
A team of six Swedish heart specialists has arrived in Yugoslavia under
the auspices of the World Health Organization to introduce in that country some
new techniques in the diagnosis and management of heart diseases in childhood.
The team has just completed a two-weeks stay in Vienna where it also demonstrated
new surgical procedures and performed the first "blue-baby" operation ever done
in Austria.
Aa a result of the team's visit, cardiac clinics for children will be
established in Vienna and Zagreb, The first of these has received equipment
from UNICEF, while the Zagreb centre will be assisted by WHO supplies. The
World Health Organization is also furnishing the surgical and other equipment
needed by the Swedish scientists during their demonstrations.
Headed by Professor Clarence Grafoord, the WHO team of specialists from
Stockholm also includes Dr. Edgar Mannheimer, cardiologist, of th* Kronprinsessan
Lovisas Children's Hospital, Dr. Olle F. Friberg, anesthesiologist, and Dr. Karl
0. Dahlbgck.
ORGANISATION MONDIALE DE IA SANTE
Pes spenialistes de l'OMS en maladies cardiaqnes se rendent en Autriche
e t en Yougoslavie
Uhe equipe coraposee de s i x s p e c i a l i s t e s du.coeur, o r i g i n a i r e s de Suede, e s t
a r r i v e s en Yougoslavie ou e l l e i n t r o d u i r a , sous l e s auspices de 1'Organisation
Mondiale de la Sante, quelques_ur.es des plus recentes techniques de diagnostic e t
de traitement des maladies du coeur chez 1'enfant. Cette equipe v i e n t de passer
deux semaines a Vienne, ou e l l e a 6galement demontre l e s nouvelles methodes c h i r u r g i c a l e s en vlgueur e t procSde a la premiere operation d'un "enfant bleu"
r e a l i s e e , j u s q u ' & ce jour,en Autriche.
Ces demonstrations auront pour consequence l'etablissement, a Vienne e t A
Zagreb, d'hSpitaux pour enfants a t t e i n t s de maladies cardiaques. Le premier de
ces deux hSpitaux a deja recu de l'UKTCEP l'equipement n e c e s s a i r e , tandis que
c e l u i de Zsgreb sera mis au benefice de3 fournitures cctroySes par l'OMS. L'Organ i s a t i o n Mondiale de la Sante met egalement a la d i s p o s i t i o n des savants suedois
l'equipe>nent c h i r u r g i c a l indispensable a ces demonstrations.
Sous la conduite du Professeur Clarence Crafoord, 1'equipe en question e s t
composee de. s p e c i a l i s t e s de Stockholm: l e Dr. Edgar Mannheimer, s p e o i a l i s t e en
maladies cardiaques, de 1'hSpital pour enfants "Kronprinsessan Levisps^ l e
Dr. Olle F. Friberg, anesthesiclogue, et l e Dr. Karl 0. Dahlbflck.