{"id":2036,"date":"2022-04-26T12:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2036"},"modified":"2022-04-26T12:46:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-26T16:46:53","slug":"kids-operating-room-update-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/?p=2036","title":{"rendered":"Kids Operating Room Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Did you know that there are currently 0 paediatric surgeons serving South Sudan&#8217;s 11,000,000 strong population?\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The country has one of the highest infant mortality rates in the world (58.6 per 1000 live births) and an alarmingly high under-5 mortality rate (89.8 \/ 1000).<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1982 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kidsor-300x201.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kidsor-300x201.png 300w, https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/kidsor.png 450w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>KIDSOR are supporting two scholars, Dr. Betty Arkangalo Yuggu Phillimona and Dr Bidali James Sebit Nzira. Upon completion of their training they are set to become the country&#8217;s first ever paediatric surgeons.\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">KidsOR have already created capacity for over 57,000 children to access safe surgery across the world so far.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To learn more of the work of KIDSOR we share a special conversation with Dr Maija Cheung Global Head of Surgery for KIDSOR and\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Assistant Professor of Surgery at Yale University. It is a wonderful inspiring conversation. https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=y52RiLOk6EY<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">You can help KidsOR pursue their mission by donating to the Directed Giving page here:<\/span>https:\/\/www.americanscottishfoundation.com\/kidsor.html<\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From a donation $65 can give a child a life saving operation and just over $1000 can install a patient warming system.\u00a0<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you wish for greater involvement, contact us at americanscottishfoundtion@gmail.com.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n<h3><br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-weight: 400;\" \/><br \/>\n<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharing recent news from Kids Operating Room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":1982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[891,204,267,208,205,3,249,266],"tags":[79,901,63,691,900,899,898],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2037,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2036\/revisions\/2037"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/americanscottishfoundation.com\/programs\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}