SPONSORED: A collaboration between the University of the Free State, the Mother and Child Academic Hospital Foundation and the Discovery_SA Fund has led to baby hearts being touched across the Free-State.
A collaboration between the University of the Free State, the Mother and Child Academic Hospital Foundation and the Discovery Fund has led to hearts being touched across the Free-State.Mother and Child Academic Hospital Foundation
“There are many children dying in the periphery of our hospitals because everyone thinks they have respiratory problems when they actually have congenital heart disease,” says Dr. Stephen Brown, a paediatric cardiologist at the Universitas Hospital in Bloemfontein. “We know for a fact that it is 100% curable, yet we lose 40 babies per year in South Africa.”
To aid the early detection of heart defects, the Discovery Fund recently funded R750 000 towards the purchase of portable diagnostic equipment to increase diagnosis rates amongst paediatric patients. “With 1 out of 4 infants dying because of a birth defect from a heart anomaly or malformation, this funding will allow us to see more children to make sure that they are diagnosed early enough to get good treatment,” says Prof.
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