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.
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.