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IHK performs second heart surgery

Posted in Heart Surgery, Hope Ward, tagged , on October 7, 2007 |

Cyprian Musoke and Harriette Onyalla writing in the Sunday Vision… KAMPALA International Hospital (IHK) has once again successfully carried out open heart surgeries. Five operations, worth $35,000 (over sh61m), were carried out last week. The five patients operated on in the last five days are Patrick Imoni, 30, Thabit Senfuka, 24, Afra Namirimu, 10, Rashid [...]

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Heart Surgery Update

Posted in Heart Surgery, Hope Ward on October 3, 2007 |

Good progress has been made so far this week, with 4 heart surgeries already completed. Ian sent us this update: CNN are doing a feature, they have just been in theatre filming – it will be a three minute slot (not on a news programme) probably something on Africa or medicine. We operated on another [...]

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Heart Surgery #4

Posted in Heart Surgery on October 3, 2007 |

Progress report from Ian: We carried out the second case yesterday (Tuesday) and it all went well. The patient had an ASD (hole in the atrium) and a slight valve defect, both of which were repaired. He is 24 years old. He is still in the Intensive care unit, but his condition is stable. The [...]

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Heart Surgery #3

Posted in Heart Surgery on October 1, 2007 |

Dr Ian Clarke sent us this quick update today: We did another case of open heart surgery this morning and it all went well. The patient was aged thirty and had an ASD since birth and was about to go into heart failure if the surgery had not been carried out. Dr Clement also did [...]

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Blood Gas Analyser

Posted in Fund Raising, Heart Surgery, Sponsors, tagged , on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Dr Richard Bogle, an interventional cardiologist and owner of Cardiac Report Limited, has generously bought us a Blood Gas Analyser, worth just over £5,000. This new equipment will be invaluable during the heart surgeries due to be performed next week. Our thanks to Richard…

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Heat Exchanger arrives at Entebbe

Posted in Fund Raising, Heart Surgery on September 25, 2007 |

A great big “Thank you” to all who helped to raise the funds to transport the Heat Exchanger. This arrived safely at Entebbe airport on Tuesday 25th.

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Heart Patients Get Free Heart Surgery

Posted in Heart Surgery, Hope Ward on September 23, 2007 |

Irene Nabusoba writes in the New Vision… FOR Patrick Imoni, 30, a peasant from Tororo, his life was practically hanging on a thread. Even if he were to sell all he owns, he could not afford the $7,000 (sh12.4m) surgery to correct the hole in his heart. Joel Oroni, Imoni’s uncle, a student of Bsc. [...]

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Heart Surgery Patients for October

Posted in Heart Surgery, Patients, tagged on September 1, 2007 |

We have just received the following update from Clement. The patients for October are a little more complicated than the first two; they all need urgent operation. Patrick Imoni 30 yrs ECHO: Large Atrial Septal Defect, Severe Tricuspid Regurgitation, Pulmonary Hypertension. Thabit Senfuka 24 yrs ECHO: Large Primum Atrial Septal Defect and Ventricular Septal Defect. [...]

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Support Heart Surgery at Hope Ward

Posted in Fund Raising, Heart Surgery, tagged on September 1, 2007 |

Would you like to help Suubi Trust support Heart Surgery at Hope Ward? We need to raise £1,000 this month to transport a heat exchanger to Kampala, in time for the next set of heart surgeries in October. It’s very easy to make a one off contribution; you can send us a cheque, transfer funds [...]

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Uganda’s First Open Heart Surgery

Posted in Heart Surgery, Hope Ward on July 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »

I know it’s old news but I’ve just come across this review with some new photographs which may be of interest. Review by The Eye International Hospital carried out the first two cases of open heart surgery in Uganda in April this year. These were the repair of Atrial-Septal Defects (ASD) commonly known as a [...]

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