by Heart NewsElisha Joseph was suffered from PDA which hindered his growth. He received his cardiac treatment during our Pediatric surgical mission at Benjamin Mkapa Hospital Dodoma on 22nd-27th July 2021.
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by Heart NewsDaniel Maji was born in the Mahenge District of the Morogoro region on 26th April 2017. He was born healthy, but in November 2020, at around 3 years old, he began to suffer from pneumonia. He was taken to Mahenge District Hospital and later referred to St. Francis Referral Hospital in Ifakara,...
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by Heart NewsAfra was born in Karagwe District, Kagera Region, on 8th May 2015. Three months after her birth, she began to suffer from breathing difficulties, and her health started to deteriorate. She was brought to Karagwe District Hospital and diagnosed with pneumonia. Despite being given medications, she...
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by Heart NewsIvannah is a young girl from Dodoma who was born with a complex heart problem. She needed two heart surgeries to save her life. Her first surgery happened when she was 1 year and 8 months old, and the second surgery took place when she was 4 years and 3 months old. These surgeries made her...
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by Heart NewsJoyline Gama got her cardiac treatment at Bengaluru Marayana hospital, India. The One New Heart Tanzania facilitated her with the traveling expenses.
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by Heart NewsOn Monday morning, we organized, planned, and learned from our guest teammates from the United States before conducting our first two catheterizations on 22-month-old Claud and 18-month-old Elijah, who both had patent ductus arteriosus (PDA). We also completed three catheterizations in children...
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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 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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