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Toddler undergoes open heart surgery at Bugando

A medical team from Israel’s Save a Child’s Heart, an international humanitarian non-governmental organisation, has successfully performed the first-ever paediatric open heart surgery on the youngest patient in Tanzania.

A statement availed to this paper on Sunday by the NGO said four-year-old Laurencia Simon, the daughter of two farmers in Mwanza, was diagnosed with a congenital heart disease two years ago.

“For the past two years, Laurencia has been too sick to go to school,” said her mother, Paulina Bujiku (27).

“We’ve been coming to the Bugando Medical Centre once a month. But what Laurencia needs is an operation. Thanks to Save a Child’s Heart, she’s about to get it. I’m scared, but I have faith,” she said shortly before her child was to undergo the operation.

The statement said after the long surgery on Friday, Laurencia was now recovering well.

“It required incredible team work to create an operating room that could meet our needs,” said Dr. Lior Sasson, the NGO's chief surgeon and head of the Cardiothoracic Surgery Department at Wolfson Medical Centre.

“But we did it - we created an environment where we could carefully and conscientiously perform open-heart surgery and we saved the life of little Laurencia. What can I say- I feel incredibly proud,” he added.

Save a Child’s Heart doctors and staff worked in collaboration with the staff at Bugando Medical Centre and Kasbian Nuriel Chirich, Israel honorary consul in Tanzania, to prepare for the moment.

The hard work paid off, as children with heart disease came from across Tanzania to be examined by the Save a Child’s Heart team of doctors.

“There are about 200 sick Tanzanian children who will be examined by the

Save a Child’s Heart team,” said Dr. Akiva Tamir, the NGO's chief cardiologist and head of the Paediatric Cardiology Unit at Wolfson Medical Centre.

“I am checking over 20 children every day and we all are committed to doing whatever it takes to help them and save their lives,” he added.

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