Twenty-one patients with various heart problems are flying to India today for subsidized Open Heart Surgery treatment at Fortis Escorts Heart Hospital in New Delhi.
Dr Rajni Kanabar, the district convenor of Open Heart Surgery for Lions Club Dar es Salaam host, said the patients are expected to come back after three weeks, following what is expected to be successful surgery.
“We are pleased to announce that Lions Club of Dar-es-Salaam (Host) in collaboration with Regency Medical Centre and the Ministry of Health, Zanzibar will be sending a group of 21 heart patients and 10 escorts including one escorting doctor,” he said.
Twenty patients are from Zanzibar and one patient from Arusha, he said, paying particular gratitude to IPP Executive Chairman Reginald Mengi for sponsoring 10 patients in the group.
In the group the youngest patient is seven-month old Sinani Maliha Makame with a trial and ventricular septal defects (two holes in the partition of upper and lower chambers of the heart), and the oldest patient is a 69 year old suffering coronary heart disease.
Escorts Heart Hospital is a world renowned cardiac centre of excellence offering subsidized rates for heart surgery to Tanzania heart babies under the Lions banner.
26/02/12 Joseph Mwendapole/IPP Media
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