Save A Child's Heart & Wolfson Medical Center left on January 17, 2020 to Tanzania for a catheterization mission with 42 boxes of material and equipment.

On Day 1, 16 screenings and 2 catheterizations had been conducted!

Sophia with her mother Whaeda, is one of more than 15 children receiving free, life-saving heart catheterizations this week in Tanzania.

 
The Deutsches Herzzentrum team from Berlin, Germany and the Save A Child's Heart team from the Wolfson Medical Center, Holon, Israel are working with the Tanzanian partners at the Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Center in Dar es Salaam, saving children's lives and screening and diagnosing children with heart disease.
 
 
Mukrim is six years old, and this week he underwent a lifesaving catheterization during the Save a Child's Heart medical mission at the JKCI in Dar es Salaam. Mukrim's mother is a housewife and his father is a small scale trader. Mukrim's parents are thrilled and grateful that their little boy received a second chance at life, and when speaking with the medical team they said that they will never forget the doctors and nurses who saved their child, and they will make sure he never forgets them as well.
 

Thank you to Prof. Felix Berger and the team from The German Heart Institute Berlin (Deutsches Herzzentrum Berlin), the entire Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute, Muhimbili Team and everyone from Wolfson Medical Center for being our partners in this lifesaving work and congratulations on an incredible week of accomplishment. Thank you to Save a Child's Heart Foundation Canada for their continued support for this project.

Medical teams from Israel, Germany, and Tanzania worked side-by-side to perform free heart catheterizations on 16 children this week and one adult.

During Save A Child's Heart Mission Zanzibar 2020, 64 children were screening.

“It’s like seeing a healthy normal heart!” said the medical team, upon seeing Fatma, Save A Child's Heart's 5,000th child at the clinic in Zanzibar. Eight months after her life was saved in Israel, Fatma is a happy little girl, who loves to run around, play and laugh. Fatma’s mother, Balkis, who is a past patient of SACH, is thrilled to see her little girl so healthy!