Global Cardiac Alliance

10/15/2026

To fix a child's heart, they first have to stop it.

Perfusionist Rob Sparks explains why, and we follow the surgery all the way through to the ICU.

TINY HEARTS · Episode 05: LIBYA
Featuring Rob Sparks ·
Directed by Chris Dela Cruz
Watch from Episode 1-4 on our page if you haven’t yet.

⚠️ Contains surgical footage.

10/13/2026

The drug shipment still hadn't arrived. So Dr. Novick sent cash to the pharmacy.

Then the team dives into surgery, and we go inside the OR with them.

TINY HEARTS · Episode 04: LIBYA
Featuring Dr. William Novick & Rob Sparks ·
Directed by Chris Dela Cruz
Watch from Episode 1 on our page.

⚠️ Contains brief surgical footage.

10/08/2026

10/08/2026

"Where's the antibiotics?"

A bug zapper sits on a table in the corner of the operating room, because insects find their way in. A ceiling panel gives way above the operating table. Then a child is prepped for heart surgery, and the team can't begin until one thing arrives.

This is what pediatric heart surgery can look like in Tripoli, Libya, and why Dr. William Novick and the Global Cardiac Alliance keep going back.

TINY HEARTS · Episode 03: LIBYA
Featuring Dr. Novick and Rob Sparks
Directed by Chris Dela Cruz

Would you have been able to wait? Tell us in the comments. 👇
Start from Episode 1 on our page.

10/06/2026

We left Episode 1 in the ICU. This is what happened next.

TINY HEARTS · Episode 02: LIBYA

A child's life on the line, and a hospital running short on what it needs to save it. The local anesthesiologist says they can't solve it alone.

This is our second mission to Tripoli University Hospital, and Dr. William Novick and the team are still fighting the same shortages.

Watch Episode 1 first. It's on our page.

🎬 Directed by Chris Dela Cruz

10/02/2026

The blood was ordered that morning. It took five hours to arrive.

TINY HEARTS · Episode 01: LIBYA

In Tripoli, Dr. William Novick and our team operate on children born with heart defects, working with whatever the hospital has and whatever it doesn't. Then a call brings them back to the ICU.

Our first vertical series. Follow along for the next episode. New episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays

🎥 Directed, filmed & edited by Chris Dela Cruz
✨Featuring Rob Sparks

10/01/2026

You’ve seen the photos from our missions. The smiling families, the thank-yous, the before-and-afters.

What you haven’t seen is everything in between.

For the first time, we’re bringing you inside. Starting in Tripoli, Libya: the OR, the ICU, the late nights, the supply shortages, the surgeons and nurses on both sides of the table, and the families who trusted them.

Some moments are quiet. Some aren’t. Like the night the team had already left the hospital when the call came: a child in the ICU had taken a turn, and the blood ordered that morning was still five hours away.

This is what a mission actually looks like.

TINY HEARTS: LIBYA, a new vertical series from the Global Cardiac Alliance.

Episode 1 drops tomorrow Friday, October 2. New episodes weekly. Follow so you don’t miss one.

09/15/2026

So happy this little one was able to go home, she was such a sweet baby girl! ❤️🥰❤️ We wish Mariam and her family all the best!

09/15/2026

An adorable picture of some fantastic ladies in Tripoli! 🇱🇾

09/14/2026

Tripoli, Libya 🇱🇾 August/September 2026

Update! As the team finishes up, here is another video of Masa, she is adorable! 🥰