Four cases of heart diseases were detected in children during the Sai Prema Foundation’s Health on Wheels Medical Camp at Namara District School in Tailevu last Saturday.
The Medical Coordinator of Sai Prema Foundation Fiji Dr. Krupali Tappoo says 75 children of Namara and surrounding villages in Tailevu were screened for Heart Disease.
She says there was one confirmed case of Congenital Heart Disease, three confirmed cases of Rheumatic Heart Disease and eight borderline cases of Rheumatic Disease which will need to be followed up in the next 6 months.
Tappoo confirms that the three children identified with Rheumatic Heart Disease will require four weekly benzathine penicillin injections.
Dr. Krupali says the child with the Congenital Heart Defect will be screened and, if needed, operated on by the visiting international team of Surgeons, Doctors and Medical Professionals representing the Sri Sathya Sai Sanjeevani Hospitals India in April.
The Sai Prema Foundation's Gift of Life program offers heart surgeries for the children of Fiji free of cost.
The Sai Prema Foundation's "Health On Wheels" is a medical outreach program, in association with the Ministry of Health, to the rural villages of Fiji.
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