Charitable activities
Having gained a wide experience in cardiology I feel that it is important to share my experience. Practicing in the UK it is saddening to see the burden of heart disease which could be easily. For this reason I have actively supported the Heart Surgery program at Hope Ward at the International Hospital Kampala in Uganda which performed the first Cardiac Surgery in the country for more than 30 years. Prior to this, heart patients were referred to either India or South Africa for even the simplest of operations.
In making this happen Hope Ward has not just brought benefit to the individual patients, but has started to increase the capacity of the medical profession in Uganda thus helping to close the gap between third world and first world medicine. The operations were performed by a team of 14 professionals, led by Dr Clement Agyin, a cardiac surgeon, currently working in St Anthony's Hospital London and perfusionist Mr John Francis Nelson. Others in the medical team are Ugandan nationals living and working in Kampala. I was able to support this work by donating a Blood Gas Analyser to help make the surgery safe.
In making this happen Hope Ward has not just brought benefit to the individual patients, but has started to increase the capacity of the medical profession in Uganda thus helping to close the gap between third world and first world medicine. The operations were performed by a team of 14 professionals, led by Dr Clement Agyin, a cardiac surgeon, currently working in St Anthony's Hospital London and perfusionist Mr John Francis Nelson. Others in the medical team are Ugandan nationals living and working in Kampala. I was able to support this work by donating a Blood Gas Analyser to help make the surgery safe.