WCI friends, we are excited and honored to be recognized by the Ugandan press for our work last week with the Ugandan Heart Institute at Mulago Hospital. Please check out this article in the New Vision newspaper, and republished on the AllAfrica.com news aggregator.

Twenty-Three Children Undergo Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects

Last week, a team from the World Children’s Initiative (WCI), a US-based non-profit organisation, joined hands with the heart institute medical team to perform paediatric cardiac catheterisation in Uganda.

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**Please note that WCI is working with New Vision to correct a few inaccuracies in this article:

• Number of procedures conducted: Twenty procedures (12 cardiac catheterizations by UHI & WCI teams and 8 heart surgeries by UHI & Abaana Heart Healers teams) were performed.
• Percentage of congenital heart defects that are correctable in Uganda, not actually corrected. Of these, 60% are correctable.
• Over the past two years, the Ugandan Government built the Uganda Heart Institute and Cardiac Catheterisation Laboratory. WCI consulted with UHI and the Ministry of Health to help them design and equip the cardiac catheterisation laboratory, where procedures will be performed,” says Shejal Carpenter, an administrator at WCI.
• Carpenter says WCI is dedicated to improving health care and educational systems for children in developing areas world-wide.

Nalunga attends to her son after the catheterization procedure last week
Image Courtesy of New Vision, Uganda’s Leading Daily Newspaper

Written by Shejal Desai Carpenter