Three for heart surgery in South Korea
Nov 01, 2009
THE Hwan Sung Medical Charitable Services has sponsored three patients to undergo open heart surgery and valve replacement in South Korea.
By Eddie Ssejjoba
THE Hwan Sung Medical Charitable Services has sponsored three patients to undergo open heart surgery and valve replacement in South Korea.
The group chairman, Sung Hwan Kim, on Friday met and briefed the beneficiaries about their trip and operations to be carried out at the Cardiac Vascular Centre in Sam Sung Hospital in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.
The beneficiaries are Shamimu Nalukwago, 12, a P5 pupil of St. Martin Mulago Primary School, Scovia Aceng Epilla, 35, a housewife from Lira town and Sworo Chaplain Kiri, 25, a Sudanese refugee and second year student of Makerere University Business School.
Kim said the group had funded 42 heart surgeries since April 2007.
He explained that 17 of the operations were done in Uganda by a visiting team from South Korea and the UK, nine were carried out at Sam Sung Hospital and 16 were conducted by Ugandan doctors at the Uganda Heart Institute at Mulago Hospital.
THE Hwan Sung Medical Charitable Services has sponsored three patients to undergo open heart surgery and valve replacement in South Korea.
The group chairman, Sung Hwan Kim, on Friday met and briefed the beneficiaries about their trip and operations to be carried out at the Cardiac Vascular Centre in Sam Sung Hospital in South Korea’s capital, Seoul.
The beneficiaries are Shamimu Nalukwago, 12, a P5 pupil of St. Martin Mulago Primary School, Scovia Aceng Epilla, 35, a housewife from Lira town and Sworo Chaplain Kiri, 25, a Sudanese refugee and second year student of Makerere University Business School.
Kim said the group had funded 42 heart surgeries since April 2007.
He explained that 17 of the operations were done in Uganda by a visiting team from South Korea and the UK, nine were carried out at Sam Sung Hospital and 16 were conducted by Ugandan doctors at the Uganda Heart Institute at Mulago Hospital.