❤️Help Us Bring Life-Saving Heart Surgery to Those in Need❤️

Heart Team is a dedicated group of medical professionals preparing to travel to Kenya in April for our first mission trip with Operation International. Together, we will provide life-saving cardiac surgery to patients who otherwise would not have access to this essential care. We are honored to share our skills and expertise working alongside our Kenyan colleagues to make a lasting impact- on heartbeat at at time.

Want to make a difference to help give the gift of a heathy heart to someone in need? Any donation will help us provide life-changing care to patients who otherwise would not have access to this treatment. We are deeply grateful for your contribution, your support means to world to our team.

More About Team Hearts:

Team Hearts consists of an exceptional team of healthcare professions- including cardiac surgeons, anesthesiologist, physician assistants, perfusionists, and registered nurses. Our team is lead by Christine Rullo, PA and Dr. Amjad Syed, who joined Operation International in 2025. We are excited to bring our expertise to our first mission in Kenya.

More About Operation International:

Operation International is a secular, non-political, humanitarian organization founded in 1996 by Medhat Allam, MD; Ravi Kothuru, MD; and Robert Mineo, CRNA under the original name of International Surgical Mission Support. The founders aspired to offer free medical care to children and adults suffering from the lack of basic health care in poor countries.

In our quest to advance human rights ideas, Operation International provides free medical care to people in need — regardless of gender, cultural, ethnic, political or religious affiliations. To ensure that our efforts impact underserved communities for years to come, we also offer education and training to local health care workers during each of our medical missions, as well as improve hospitals’ infrastructure through equipment donation.

Team NY, the first Operation International team, made its maiden mission to Haiti in 1997, where the founders of the organization witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of poverty and inadequate medical care.

Since the beginning, our teams of doctors, clinicians, nurses, and aides have expanded to include over 200 medical professionals in multiple Chapters located throughout the United States, the UK, and Hong Kong.

In our many medical missions to date, we have directly impacted the lives of thousands of people by performing life-saving and life-changing surgeries including cancer surgeries, sight restoration surgeries, burn reconstructive surgeries, corrective surgeries for congenital anomalies such as clubfoot and cleft palate, and obstetric and gynecological surgeries.

Help Bring Life-Saving Cardiac Surgery to Those In Need

By Operation International Team Hearts

Help Bring Life-Saving Cardiac Surgery to Those In Need

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