Our Humble Efforts
Statistics as at September 2024
Sai Sanjeevani Fiji
The vision of the Children’s Hospital is to become the most important pediatric cardiac care centre for Fiji and the Pacific Island nations. Pursuant to the principles of the Foundation, no child or parent will pay for the surgery. All services at the Hospital including Heart Surgery will be provided completely free of charge.
The FJD$25 million Hospital was officially inaugurated by the then Hon. Prime Minister of Fiji on 27th April, 2022. This hospital is the largest charitable project undertaken by an NGO in the history of Fiji.
Despite the charitable nature of the project, the Sai Prema Foundation has created a world-class facility with the aim of providing the best possible surgery and treatment to the children of Fiji and the Pacific.
The Sai Prema Foundation is committed to providing free training abroad for Fijians in its bid to build local capacity with a vision of one day transforming this specialist Hospital into one which is run with local Fijian Surgeons, Doctors and Medical personnel.
more ^
332 children given free heart surgeries by Sai Prema Foundation
332 children have been given a new lease of life by the Sai Prema Foundation, at a cost of FJD$35 million over the last 8 years.
The Director of the Sri Sathya Sanjeevani Fiji, Dr. Krupali Tappoo has highlighted that these surgeries were performed by an international medical team of professionals from the Australia, Czech Republic, Greece, India, Malaysia, New Zealand, Oman, Papua New Guinea, Singapore, United Kingdom, Slovenia, Ukraine, United Kingdom and United States of America.
Dr. Tappoo says over 8 years in conjunction with the Ministry of Health over 35,552 patients have received medical treatment free of charge.
Dr. Tappoo says in April 2019, the then Prime Minister, inaugurated the South Pacific’s first Children Heart Screening Centre which has screened over 20,864 children with congenital heart disease.
