About 200 babies born every year in Fiji have congenital heart disease - Doctor Tappoo
About 200 babies born every year in Fiji have congenital heart disease - Doctor Tappoo Monday 15/02/2021
Dr. Krupali Tappoo held a Press Conference to raise awareness about Congenital Heart Disease in Fiji. [image: Supplied]
About 200 babies born every year in Fiji have congenital heart disease which is 60 times more prevalent than childhood cancer.
Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Hospital Director, Doctor Krupali Tappoo says 50% of children with congenital heart disease will require surgical intervention and they have successfully provided free heart surgery to 73 children since 2016.
Doctor Tappoo says they have completed a week-long awareness campaign highlighting the impact of congenital heart disease and the important role of early diagnosis and treatment in the form of surgical intervention.
Paralysed Father Of Five In Need Of Help My kids are my pride and joy. They are the reason I wake up every morning with a positive attitude. Sometimes I am really discouraged, at times I thought it’ll be better if I just die so I don’t become a burden. But deep in my heart I feel that God still has something set out for me that’s why I am still around. by inoke rabonu
13 Feb 2021 09:37 Filimoni Tadumailaucala with his youngest son, Isikeli Tadumailaucala at their Veisari Home in Lami on February 10, 2021. Photo: Ronald Kumar.
A father of five is in desperate need of help.
FNU students to provide dental services at Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Dental Centre
FNU students to provide dental services at Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Dental Centre Wednesday 27/01/2021
Fiji National University dental students will get the opportunity to gain experience and exposure outside of their normal learning environment as they will now be providing dental services to children at the Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Dental Centre.
This is after the Sai Prema Foundation and FNU signed a partnership which ensures that the Sai Sanjeevani Heart Centre will also have a dental centre.
FNU College of Medicine, Nursing and Health Services Head, Osea Dukunu says the partnership will encourage the exchange of ideas, expertise and knowledge.
6 children of Namuamua village diagnosed with heart disease
6 children of Namuamua village diagnosed with heart disease Thursday 21/01/2021
6 children of Namuamua village in Namosi have been diagnosed with heart disease and further analysis is being carried out to determine what sort of treatment they require.
The diagnosis was done after 54 children received free heart screening at Sai Sanjeevani Children’s Heart Screening Centre on Friday. More than 87 residents of the village were given free medical checkups.
The Director of Sai Prema Foundation, Sumeet Tappoo had earlier revealed that 53 children in Fiji who are diagnosed with congenital heart disease need surgery.
Tappoo says they are desperate to open South Pacific’s first-ever free children’s heart hospital as soon as possible after the equipment is installed by the medical engineers.