Figure 1.

Map of Mozambique showing the 11 provinces of the country, one of which is the City of Maputo (location 11). Maputo City is the place where the two major referral units are located (Hospital Central de Maputo and Instituto do Coração). Together these institutions have 9 of the 13 cardiologists working in the country and are the only having availability of cardiac catheterization and open heart surgery. Only other two of the remaining 10 provinces of Mozambique have cardiologists (locations 3 and 7). The hospitals in these locations serve as referral points for all patients of the central and northern regions