Yesterday, Timor-Leste Hearts Fund met with His Excellency President José Ramos-Horta to discuss our work to strengthen Timor-Leste’s cardiovascular health system, with a focus on supporting the national heart-health workforce. We shared the design of our proposed program, Caring for Healthy Hearts, which aims to provide in-service training for
Timor-Leste Hearts Fund is excited to announce the launch of our groundbreaking ‘Caring for Healthy Hearts’ program in 2025. This initiative is aimed at transforming cardiovascular care in Timor-Leste by enhancing the skills of healthcare professionals, improving hospital policies, and ensuring better access to heart health services across the
A top priority for the Timor-Leste Hearts Fund is to collaborate with the Timor-Leste Ministry of Health and Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares (HNGV) to strengthen the local cardiac healthcare workforce. Many standard cardiac surgeries are currently unavailable in Timor-Leste, forcing patients to seek treatment abroad, which is often too
In July 2024 our team visited the cardiac clinic at Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares - HNGV. Our Co-Founder and volunteer cardiologist - Dr Noel Bayley, and Cardiac Program Coordinator - Ricky Flavio, assisted local cardiologists as they assessed patients. During the visit Dr Bayley conducted training with cardiology staff on how
We are delighted that patients Olga and Francisco from Timor-Leste have received life-saving heart surgery in May 2024 thanks to our donors, volunteers and partners. Twenty-four-year-old Olga was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease in her teens and developed heart failure due to severe narrowing of her mitral valve. She
Our hearts are filled with joy for thirty-year-old Noemia from Timor-Leste who recently received a life-saving heart procedure in Australia. Noemia had been living with a condition that blocked blood from flowing normally through her heart, lungs and body. Unfortunately, there is no cardiac surgery available in Timor-Leste. Without
On 28 November 2022 - Proclamation of Independence Day in Timor-Leste - Dr. Noel Bayley, co-founder of Timor-Leste Hearts Fund, was awarded the prestigious Medal of the Order of Timor-Leste. His Excellency the President of the Republic of Timor-Leste, Dr. Jose Ramos-Horta presented Noel with the Medal for outstanding
Our volunteer cardiac team have just returned from Timor-Leste after holding cardiac screening clinics in mid October 2022. Dr Elizabeth Paratz, shares her experience here. The 3-day clinic was an enormous success, reviewing a total of 120 patients. This was the largest clinic since the COVID-19 pandemic and it
We are delighted to welcome Mana Sidónia Ximenes to the Timor-Leste Hearts Fund team. Mana Sidónia is our new Rheumatic Heart Disease Nurse based in Dili with our partners Maluk Timor. She will be supporting our RHD awareness, education and prevention programs including the penicillin program and our RHD
We are thrilled to inform you that the Board of Timor-Leste Hearts Fund has appointed Peter Walton as a Board Director in August 2022. Peter was inspired to join our Board after spending most of his career in for-purpose organisations. He has worked in over 50 countries in 28
