Chao Foundation partners with China Cal to run two programs in Yunnan Province, China focused on treating congenital heart disease.
1) The Yunnan Province Newborn Training Program
This program, initiated in 2012, has a goal of training every obstetrician and obstetrical nurse in all 125 Yunnan county hospitals how to properly examine newborns’ hearts to detect early congenital heart disease, especially critical congenital heart disease of the newborn (CCHD). To train one doctor or nurse costs about $25.
| a. Dr. Li Ya Ni, a cardiology resident at Kunming Medical University, trains rural OB doctors and nurses the proper technique for examining hearts of newborns. |  |
 | b. Ms. Guo Fang Qi is a PhD graduate student in public health at the University of California, Irvine (UCI). Ms. Guo is from Harbin, a city in the northeast part of China. She trains OB doctors and nurses how to properly use pulse oximetry to test for abnormal oxygen saturation in newborns. She is also making the evaluation of the training program the subject of her PhD thesis at UCI. |
| c. Ms. Zhang Rui is a native of Dali, China with a college degree in economics. She assists in teaching nurses and doctors and answering their questions. She also arranges logistics of travel and financial issues regarding the program. |  |
