Philanthropy
Heart Ali, a project of Fan Bingbing and Maite CEO Chen Lizhi (publicist for The Flowers of War), aimed to rescue the children who suffered from Congenital Heart Disease in Ngari area, Tibet. Fan Bingbing has visited them several times so far with medical teams to identify children in need of treatment. After identification, the children and their parents are brought in groups to Beijing or Shanghai for surgery.
The first screening:
- August 8, 2010, Fan Bingbing and several other people from Beijing, went to Tibet Ngari area, to screen children with congenital heart disease. They diagnosed 267 children with congenital heart disease.
Second screening:
- In June 2011, a volunteer group, convened by Fan Bingbing studio and Maite CEO Chen Lizhi, including members from Fan Bingbing studio, two doctors of Tsinghua University First Affiliated Hospital Heart Diseases Center and 9 other volunteers, carrying portable echocardiography equipment, went to Tibet Ngari area to diagnose the children with congenital heart disease. This time, the group screened 336 children, diagnosed 78 cases of congenital heart disease.
Third screening:
- April 5, 2012, Fan Bingbing studio members, Maite CEO Chen Lizhi, two doctors of Tsinghua University First Affiliated Hospital, two doctors of the Shanghai Yodak Cardio-thoracic Hospital and some other volunteers, went to Tibet Ngari area, to screen the children with congenital heart disease. In 12 days, volunteers screened almost ten thousand children, diagnosed more than 160 cases of congenital heart disease.
Since August 2010, a total of 80 children with congenital heart disease have received the surgery in Beijing and Shanghai.
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