Dr John Omagino, director Uganda Heart Institute.

About 50 Ugandan children with heart defects will be operated upon soon by the Uganda Heart Institute and about 1,000 will be screened from northern Uganda using part of the 360,401 US dollar grant the institute has received from an international rotary organization Gift of Life and rotary clubs of Mengo and Entebbe.

The executive director of Uganda heart institute, Dr John Omagino, says that the institute has a capacity to operate about 1,000 children every year but conducts only 400 operations because of lack of supplies.

Medics in the theatre at Uganda Heart.

Dr omagino further say that about  16,000 babies  are born  with heart defects  in Uganda  every year, advising  parents to always take their babies for checkups in case they don’t  feed and breath well.