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Timor-Leste: Saving lives through critical care in remote regions
"It was our first time performing a thrombolysis procedure," said Dr Augusto Adelaide Pereira, an emergency physician at Suai Referral Hospital, located over 170 km away from Timor-Leste’s capital, Dili. He was referring to the case of a 41-year-old man who arrived at the hospital complaining of severe chest pain and shortness of breath while out for an evening jog. A swift diagnosis of a heart attack, followed by timely treatment in the hospital’s High Dependency Unit proved to be a timely life-saving intervention.