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 […]
Parliament has passed the Uganda Heart Institute Bill, 2015 which will make the Institute a self-accounting body with a budget independent of the Health Ministry. The object of the Bill is to establish the Institute as an autonomous government agency mandated to undertake and coordinate the management of cardiovascular diseases. Presenting a report on the […]
India has partnered with Uganda to carry out free training for medical personnel in Heart surgery and save expenditure incurred by Ugandans who travel abroad for open heart surgery. Experts from school of Kolira Ben Hospital and research institute in India are in Uganda to identify with the assistance of their country representative Munu Kanani […]
The director of Uganda Heart Institute Dr. John Omongino has called on the government to increase funding to the Uganda heart institute. Speaking to the media, Dr. Omongino said the current funding by the government can only meet about 0.5% of what is required by the institute. He says most of the equipment and drugs required by […]
By Mugisa Isaac Mathias A total of 11 disadvantaged Ugandan heart patients will undergo surgery under the sponsorship of Hwan- Sung Medical Charity Service by the end of this year. Under its charitable heart surgery program me The programme, Hwan Sung Medical Charity service social responsibility and The surgeries will be performed during November and […]