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Heart patients arrive home
By Pascal Shao, IPP Media
Fri, Feb 17, 2006
Fourteen children have returned home after undergoing successful heart surgery in India.
Children were received at Mwalimu J.K. Nyerere International Airport on Wednesday by their parents and guardians as well as the leaders of Lions Club, who included Firoz Bandali, Dr Rajni Kanabar and Shiraz Rashid.
The surgeries were funded by Dr Kiran Patel of the Global Understanding Foundation based in Florida, in the United States and co-ordinated by the Lions Club of Dar es Salaam (Host) in collaboration with Regency Medical Centre.
The convenor of the heart surgery project and Lions Club medical camps, Dr Rajni Kanabar, said that another group that left for India recently had arrived safely at the Narayana Hrudayalaya Heart Institute in Bangalore.
’’Examinations have been completed and surgeries will start immediately. They are expected to be back in Tanzania three in weeks time’’ he said.
Dr Kanabar conveyed words of appreciation to Kalamandalam Group as well as Dr Kiran Patel and his wife Dr Pallavi Patel for their endless donations to children who need financial assistance for heart surgeries.
He also urged Good Samaritans to join hands with the Lions Club and other well-wishers to enable more patients get opportunities for heart surgeries.
Dr Kanabar said the targeted figure of 100 free heart surgeries has been crossed under the Millennium Heart Surgery Project of Lions Club of Dar es Salaam (Host) and Regency Medical Centre.
He added that a major cardiac screening camp would be held at Regency Medical Centre in collaboration with Lions Club in the second week of February where cardiologists from India would select 100 patients for free heart surgery.
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