Children's Heart- LIFE-SAVING CARDIAC SURGERY

A long fruitful collaboration between Mission Bambini Foundation and

Mulango Hospital Uganda teams

Since 2013 a fruitful collaboration has been established between Mission
Bambini Foundation and Mulago Hospital teams’ thanks firstly to Dr Arioli and
Dr Ammirati and recently to Dr Marianeschi. All volunteers are cardiologist
and or cardiothoracic surgeon of which they are mostly from Niguarda
hospital located in Milan.

Mulago hospital, located in Kampala, is the largest hospital in the country and
has been funded by Sir Arthur Ruskin Cook and English missionary doctor in
1917.

The Pediatric heart surgery project has started in the 70s, and today, after
more than 50 years, this hospital can offer very good quality of health care
services to both adults and children.
The collaboration with Mission Bambini Foundation can support the Ugandan
health care team way through training, screening and surgical operations for
children patient having complicated hearth surgery.
During the last mission in May 2023, Mission Bambini volunteers flew to
Kampala to support the local medical team in ten pediatric heart surgeries.
These surgical interventions are also known as save file intervention, in fact if
the intervention was not performed, the child could have sooner or later died
All health care fees are free of charge and additional costs as care givers’
accommodation and or local transportation are covered by Mission Bambini
Foundation.
One week after the surgical intervention, all children are in very good health
conditions.
Among the beneficiaries, A., a child operated on twice by our volunteer
doctors, first in Uganda and then in Italy, came to visit Mission Bambini’s
volunteers at the Mulago National Referral Hospital Complex - Uganda Heart
Institute.
A. and his father travelled a whole day almost 18 hours and covered
500 km, just to say goodbye and thank to all members’ team, for the
unconditional support and they brought a cake with the words "Thank u
Bambini Mission".