Friday was a day of mixed emotions. The day started well with a newspaper article in the local Ugandan paper New Vision featuring the work of World Children’s Initiative training the pediatric cardiology team at the Uganda Heart Institute. The story featured several quotes from one of WCI’s founders, Dr. Kanishka Ratnayaka. It was very…
Thursday was the first of two days that previous years’ patients returned to the Uganda Heart Institute for follow-up visits. This was the WCI team’s first opportunity on this trip to see with our own eyes children playing harder and living longer after their treatment. The first follow-up patient to be seen was Christianna. She…
DAY THREE Today was the first day of procedures to fix the problems in the patients being seen in the cardiac catheterization lab. The combined WCI-UHI team was able to perform three cases today. All of the children had an abnormally open blood vessel near the heart. Before children are born, a blood vessel called…
Now that everyone is back in the groove of the WCI-UHI collaboration things are continuing to go well. The cath lab is busy and the UHI staff is performing procedures more independently. One of the UHI nurses gushed with appreciation for the teaching perspective with which the World Children’s Initiative providers approach doing the cases….
Even though everyone was at varying levels of fatigue from the transatlantic trip, all the World Children’s Initiative (WCI) members were excited to get started helping kids play harder and live longer. We spent the first moments at the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) getting acquainted, and some of us reacquainted, with colleagues at the hospital….
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