What do we do?

The foundation was set up with 3 main objectives

Treatment Inclusivity

For more than a decade, First Cardiology Consultant Hospital in Ikoyi, Lagos has been providing comprehensive cardiovascular care to patients in Nigeria.

Modern Cardiovascular healthcare is expensive and not within the means of most Nigerians. To increase accessibility to these lifesaving therapies and increase awareness in the community on prevention and treatment of heart diseases; the Healthy Heart Foundation (HHF) was created

In September 2021; HHF in partnership with FCC, VOOM foundation and ABUAD performed open heart surgeries on fourteen (14) indigent patients from across the country; age range 18- 73 years.

In December of the same year still in partnership with VOOM Foundation and ABUAD, we offered care to 9 indigent patients giving them and their loved ones an early Christmas gift.

We have had a successful 2021 mission and plan on-going activities bi-monthly going forward.

The care is not streamlined solely to major procedures ie Open Heart Surgery; we also aim at providing care to patients requiring minimally invasive / intermediate procedures ie Pacemaker insertions.

A Learning Center

A critical challenge for the delivery of modern and efficient healthcare in Nigeria is the dearth of skilled manpower in the country. A challenged educational system at all levels of education has taken its toll on the quality of human personnel even though the average Nigerian is highly intelligent. In addition, unfulfilled aspirations and the harsh economic climate has led to the mass exodus of our best - already trained and experienced man power.

The Healthy Heart Foundation intends to provide advanced clinical training in the following areas in an attempt to bridge yawning gap:

  • General Internal Medicine In-patient and Ambulatory Care
  • General Cardiovascular Medicine In-patient and Ambulatory Care
  • Advanced Echocardiographic imaging fellowship
  • Invasive Cardiology Fellowship
  • Sleep Medicine training
  • Heart failure management
  • Pre and Perioperative care training
  • Critical care Fellowship
  • Minor and Major surgery Physician Assistants
  • Ventilator care technicians
  • Perfusionist and Operating theatre management
  • Biomedical engineering
  • Advanced clinical nurses for Medical and surgical care
  • Endoscopy training
  • Clinical Research
  • Critical care nursing
  • Cardiovascular Physiologists

The learning center will be electronically linked to academic centers in the US and subscriptions to international learning resources.

FCC Healthcare Trust Research Center

There currently exists a “disease prevalence and Knowledge paradox” in the world. Most of the diseases and ailments are domiciled in the places around the world with the least knowledge or technical knowhow to address them. In Nigeria, the scientific contributions from our institutions fall far below what is expected given the burden of disease spectrum we have in Nigeria. There is no doubt that lack of funding exacerbates the dearth of research productivity.

There however exists innumerable opportunities to access external funds for research. The challenge however is the absence of efficient research framework which makes it difficult for grant applications from our Nigerian institutions to attract funding. A critical (but absent) research infrastructure that needs to be created to facilitate research is a Private COMPREHENSIVE INSTITUTIONAL REVIEW BOARD (IRB).

The purpose of the IRB is to give independent assurance (to prospective funding partners) that appropriate and best practice measures are taken to protect the rights and welfare of the human participants in a research study. In addition, the IRB will provide experts in all areas of scientific research infrastructure including;

  • Evaluation of scientific merit of proposals
  • Evaluating the statistical approach to each project for validity and feasibility
  • Assistance with grant writing
  • Management of budgets
  • Audit and reporting of research timelines

The Research Center will also meet the local statutory requirement for registration with the Federal Research Ethics Committee as provided in the Nigerian National Health Act of 2014 as well the composition requirement

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