Cardiologists from King Faisal hospital have agreed to operate Ange Ineza a year old girl who has been undergoing heart treatment at Kibuye hospital.
“We have communicated with Ineza’s family, and they will bring her to King Faisal Hospital next week, for a scheduled monthly check up with Dr Mucumbitsi, one of Kigali’s pediatric cardiologists.” Read a communiqué from the ministry of health.
Often, Ineza gets breathing complications after which she has to be hospitalized and kept on oxygen life support for some time.
According to medical diagnosis, she has a hole on the partition wall between the two sides of her heart meaning that blood containing oxygen in the left side of the heart is forced to mix with blood without oxygen in the right side.
With this condition, too much blood passes into the lungs (via the pulmonary artery) and too little to the body tissues (via the aorta).
Indeed, such heart conditions exist in young children; thus, through various initiatives, the Ministry of Health mobilizes as much as possible to offer free heart surgeries by highly qualified international specialists to children suffering from cardiac disorders.
“These initiatives, which have gone on for a long time, are still ongoing and Ineza will benefit from them when she is clinically eligible (and when it is safe to operate on her). In as many of these cases as possible, the Ministry of Health arranges for children to be treated either here in Rwanda or elsewhere, depending on their clinical need,” read the statement.
The Ministry of Health in collaboration with its international partners have already assisted more than 250 patients with cardiac disorders for the past five years.
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