by Heart NewsSiham Aden, a young lady from Kenya, was diagnosed with a heart defect in February 2021 when she was 4 years old, after experiencing a severe cough. She was sent to a doctor, and an echo result showed that she had PDA. Her father was told to send her to Mater Hospital for a heart operation...
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by Heart NewsThe death of our beloved President Dr. John Pombe Magufuli delayed the start of the mission for the week of national mourning and patients we expected to come for procedures could not travel. One child had significant pneumonia and had to be canceled. As is typical when starting a...
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by Heart NewsIn 2017, a team that went to vaccinate children in her school noticed that she needed to be seen by a doctor before she could get the vaccine. It is then that she was diagnosed with Tetralogy of Fallot (TOF)- a combination of heart defects- and needed surgical intervention. 13- years...
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