Over 28 children with Heart complications were successfully operated and cured by a team of Belgian surgeons who have been in Rwanda since 2006.
The surgeons belong to an organisation called Chain Hope Belgium.
The Chain of Hope is an international humanitarian association whose objective is to care for and operate children who were not lucky enough to be born in a country where access to care is guaranteed. Those children suffer from cardiac, orthopaedics, urological, neurological, … malformations.
Murekatete Juliette the mother to Uwase Phiona says her child was operated of a heart complication three months after she was born.
Murekatete says that now Uwase is very healthy and fine.
Dr.Mucumbitsi Joseph a medical practitioner at King Faisal Hospital says that since 2005, four goups of heart specialists have since been formed to deal with heart complications.
He added that this team of experts is able to handle all heart complications without neccessarily physically cutting through the chest.
The Minister of Health Dr. Agnes Binagwaho says that Rwanda has only five heart surgeons.
She, however, says more Rwandans have been sent abroad to study specialised heart surgery and that very soon Rwanda will have enough such doctors to handle all heart cases.
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