Hon. Dr. Hamisi Kigwangalla is paying a visit to Save A Child’s Heart

Hon. Dr. Hamisi Kigwangalla, Tanzania Minister of Tourism & Natural Resources has paid a visit to Save A Child's Heart and Wolfson Medical Center together with H.E. Mr. Job Daudi Masima, Ambassador of the United Republic of Tanzania.

He was pleased to meet with doctors in training from the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, Dr. David Silvera and Dr. Stella Mongella as well as dozen children and their escorts from Tanzania Mainland and Zanzibar.

Save a Child’s Heart is an international non-profit organization with the mission of improving the quality of pediatric cardiac care for children in developing countries and creating centers of competence in these countries. Save a Child’s Heart's goal is to improve the health and welfare of all children, regardless of the child's religion, gender or nationality.

Save a Child’s Heart was founded in 1995 at the Wolfson Medical Center in Holon, Israel, and holds preoperative and follow up cardiology clinics in Israel and abroad on a weekly basis, offers a comprehensive training program within Israel for doctors and nurses from developing countries and leads surgical and teaching missions to partner countries. 

To date, Save a Child's Heart has saved the lives of more than 4,900 children from 57 countries in Africa, South America, Europe, Asia, and throughout the Middle East and trained more than 120 medical team members from these countries.

Save a Child's Heart was in January, 2019 in Tanzania, Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute where 25 children underwent a cardiac catheterization (https://www.il.tzembassy.go.tz/resources/videos)