Published in New Vision Online…
By Josephine Maseruka
LOOKING at the little Aziz Abdulla Ssegujja on oxygen in the intensive care unit at the International Hospital Kampala, there was no doubt that he had just undergone a big operation. As he lay on his back with a blank expression, the surgeons kept watch.
Since Saturday, the hospital has [...]
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The next set of Heart Surgeries begin today, March 1st.
Thanks to continued support from:
Hwan Sung Medical Charity Services
Dr Clement Agyin and his colleagues in St. Anthony’s Hospital, Cheam
Inverness Medical UK
and the Medical and Support staff at International Hospital Kampala
the following will each recieve life changing care:
Simon (Valve Repair)
Mark (ASD Closure)
Abdallah (VSD Closure)
Linton (Valve repair [...]
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Posted in Heart Surgery on February 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Hwan Sung Medical Charity Services has once again pledged its support for open heart surgeries at IHK. It will give $30,000 to cover the costs of 6 operations in February.
Today it made a deposit of the first $10,000.
We are very thankful for this generous support and know that it will make a huge impact on [...]
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Clement, Moses and the team at IHK are making preparations for another set of heart surgeries.
Sponsorship has been pledged by Hwan Sung.
Essential consumables for the Blood Gas Analyser (provided in September by Cardiac Report Limited) have been purchased from Inverness Medical UK, which has kindly provided a very significant discount on its list price. Funding [...]
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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 Matovu, 8, [...]
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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 patient [...]
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Posted in Heart Surgery on October 3, 2007 | No Comments »
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 first [...]
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Posted in Heart Surgery on October 1, 2007 | No Comments »
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 a [...]
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