Annual meeting of Monaco Humanitarian Collective: 515 children treated in 15 years

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On Friday 17 February 2023, members of the Monaco Humanitarian Collective (charities, treatment centres and the Prince’s Government) held their annual meeting to review the previous year and discuss celebrations of the Collective’s fifteenth anniversary. The Collective has treated 515 children since it was first established.

In 2022, 51 children with heart disease were monitored by the Monaco Humanitarian Collective. Six of these children were treated in Monaco and France, while the other 45 were able to undergo their operations in their own countries in Africa.

Since 2019, a partnership with Chaîne de l’Espoir (Chain of Hope) has enabled the Collective to expand its work in four African countries so that children can receive surgery in their own countries when conditions allow. Since the partnership was established, 80 operations have been funded in Mali, Madagascar and – from 2022 onwards – in Senegal and Burkina Faso. For the most serious cases, where surgery cannot be carried out in-country, the option of treatment in Monaco at one of the partner healthcare facilities remains available.

The annual meeting was also an opportunity to discuss the preparations for the Collective’s fifteenth anniversary, which will be celebrated in Dakar, Senegal, in June 2023. This celebration will offer a chance to honour the doctors working in the hospitals in the partner countries, local guardians and members of the Collective, as well as children who have undergone operations in Monaco or Dakar in the last three years. The Prince’s Government will be represented at the celebration by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation and Monaco’s Consulate in Senegal.

The Monaco Humanitarian Collective is a solidarity network that brings together 16 Monegasque non-governmental organisations (NGOs), three French NGOs, three healthcare facilities in Monaco (Monaco Cardiothoracic Centre, Princess Grace Hospital, Monaco Institute of Sports Medicine and Surgery (IM2S)) and four facilities in Africa (André Festoc Paediatric Cardiac Centre in Bamako, Mali, Soavinandriana Hospital (CENHOSOA) in Antananarivo, Madagascar, the Cuomo Paediatric Cardiac Centre in Dakar, Senegal and the Tingandogo University Hospital in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso).

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•            https://www.facebook.com/monacocollectifhumanitaire/

•            https://mch.mc/