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01The PET Project
Children’s Heart Care

The PET Project

Medical consumables for Partial Exchange Transfusions, so children with Tetralogy of Fallot get the procedure at no cost to their families.

Fund the Next Edition 5 Editions

02The Story

250+

transfusions’ worth of consumables supplied across 5 editions

Volunteers, consultants and resident doctors with donated PET supplies at UCH

Children with Tetralogy of Fallot, a form of “hole in the heart”, can develop dangerously thick blood while they wait for heart surgery. A Partial Exchange Transfusion keeps them safe until then. We supply the medical consumables to the Paediatric Cardiology Unit at University College Hospital, so no child waits on money before treatment.

Each edition stocks the unit with consumables for 50 transfusions, and a paediatric cardiologist teaches caregivers how to care for their children at home.

  • We raise funds and buy the consumables the unit asks for.
  • We hand them over at the Children’s Outpatient Clinic with consultants, nurses and families present.
  • A specialist in childhood heart disease gives a health talk for caregivers at every edition.

Our AimConsumables for 50 transfusions every six months.

03Every Edition

5 editions, newest first.

  1. The PET Project 5.0 3 October 2023 50 transfusions’ worth of consumables
  2. The PET Project 4.0 27 September 2022 50 transfusions’ worth of consumables
  3. The PET Project 3.0 21 January 2020 50 transfusions’ worth of consumables
  4. The PET Project 2.0 11 December 2018 50 transfusions’ worth of consumables
  5. The PET Project 1.0 30 June 2018 50 transfusions’ worth of consumables

04Also in This Strand

30 June 2018

SmileBuilders Initiative launches at UCH

SmileBuilders Initiative was formally launched on 30th June, 2018, with an Awareness on Heart Diseases programme at University College Hospital, Ibadan. Guest speakers from the Neurology and Paediatric Cardiology Units of UCH gave health talks on hypertension and congenital heart defects, about 30 people were offered free eye screening, blood pressure and body mass index checks, and medical items for 50 Partial Exchange Transfusions were donated to the Paediatric Cardiology Unit as the first PET Project.

05In Pictures

Moments from past editions.

Volunteers, beneficiaries, resident doctors and consultants at PET Project 4.0
Medical supplies for PET being handed to nurses of the Paediatric Cardiology Unit
Dr. B.E. Adebayo, Consultant Paediatric Cardiologist, UCH, delivering a health talk at PET Project 3.0
Guests and beneficiaries of the PET Project at the Children Outpatient Clinic
SmileBuilders volunteers at PET Project 3.0
Beneficiaries of the PET Project with SmileBuilders volunteers at the Otunba Tunwase Children Emergency Ward
The Executive Director giving his address while the guest speaker, Dr. Adebayo, and Matron Samson look on
Medical supplies donated for PET Project 2.0
Members of the Board of Directors and volunteers present at PET Project 2.0
Mr. Siyanbola, Director of Administration of UCH, presenting the medical items for PET to children with congenital heart defects and their parents
A cross section of attendees at the launch of SmileBuilders Initiative
Dr. Bisi of the Neurology Unit delivering the health talk on hypertension, with Dr. Hamza of the Paediatric Cardiology Unit beside him

06Build the Next Edition

Your gift is the next block.

Every donation goes into the supplies and logistics for the next edition.

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