PACE
MAKER
CAMP
400
Number of devices donated
costing between 400,000 to
1.2 million shillings
2018 Prof. Carsten Israel (Electrophysiologist
from Germany) removed it at the M.P.
Shah Hospital Cathlab, cleaned it along
with Venkat (cathlab technician), sutured &
closed it.
Dr. Samia (Cardiologist) did diagnostics
and stress test on 4 th January 2018 and he
is perfectly fine, got a new life without a
pacemaker
TOUCHING LITTLE HEARTS
Healing Little Hearts is
an initiative of M.P Shah
Hospital in partnership
with Doctors from Great
Ormond Street Hospital,
London, Paediatric
Interventional Cardiologists
from ‘Healing Little Hearts
Charity’ and Jain Social
Group
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HEALTHY DELIGHT
T
hrough the
initiative, selected
needy children
suffering from
various heart
ailments and congenital heart
defects will undergo Cardiac
Catheter Interventions at no
charge. Last year 16 needy
children benefitted from the
program. The procedures
would otherwise cost between
Ksh.500, 000 to Ksh.1, 000,000
per child.
JANUARY - MARCH 2018
From 20 to 25 of November
2017, M.P Shah Hospital
held the second phase of the
cardiac interventions camp.
11 children benefited from
the interventions. A further 50
children benefited from free
cardiac screening held on
the 20 th and 21 st of the same
month.
th
th
Meet
12 year
old
Sarupa
from
Isiolo.
In 2008 he underwent surgery
for a mistral valve replacement
followed by a pacemaker in
Italy.
In November 2017 a
pacemaker battery change
was done in Nairobi which got
infected and the pacemaker
perforated. Sarupa was
supposed to be pacemaker
dependent but the pacemaker
memory and interrogation
showed he is not dependent. A
wonderful surprise! 3 rd January
Sarupa is among the 20 young adults and
senior citizens who have benefited from the
pacemaker camp organised by M.P. Shah
Hospital along with EAHRP, Dr. Fred Bukachi
& German Medical devices to Donor
groups.
The East African Heart Rhythm Project
www.eahrp.com begun in 2009 as a Charity
to assist poor patients in the region with
permanent pacemakers. So far over 400
devices costing between 400,000 to 1.2
million shillings have been donated.
Different industry players have donated
top-of- the- range devices and a number of
hospitals including M.P Shah have graciously
donated theater space for this worthwhile
course.
JANUARY - MARCH 2018
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