UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA - JDC
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UNITED NATIONS OFFICE AT GENEVA - JDC
c O ( d> " • ''•:-• 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.