By Benedict Tembo
THIRTY-TWO Zambian children have received treatment at the Save A Child’s Heart (SACH)’s Edith Wolfson Medical Centre near Tel Aviv, Israel.
The 32 children bring the cumulative number to 112 since SACH, an Israeli-based international non-profit organisation with the mission of improving the quality of pediatric cardiac care signed the first Memorandum of Understanding with the Ministry of Health in 2016.
SACH Executive Director Simon Fisher said apart from the 32, they are expecting at least another 20 children from Zambia before the end of 2024.
Apart from treating children, SACH has also been training Zambian medics in pediatric cardiac surgery.
“We have two fellows with us at present training on pediatric cardiac surgery and pediatric intensive care. We are expecting a third fellow in anaesthesia,” Mr Fisher said
One medical professional, a pediatric cardiac surgeon, one anesthesiologist and one perfusionist have been trained in Israel.
Ziwa Mudaniso, a Zambian medic has been back at the National Heart Hospital for just over a year with two fellows who trained with him in Israel one in cardiac anaesthesia and the other heart lung machine technician.
“We’ve also financed 7 nurses who went for training in Tanzania at Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute and four more travel this month. We also financed travel for Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute team to come and work with National Heart Hospital team in January. This week, we are funding a joint Italian and Tanzanian team who are operating and catheterising children at NHH together with the NHH team,” Mr Fisher said.
The NHH is Zambia’s designated cardiac hospital.
He said the SACH has also paid for their flights and consumables for catheterising.
“We have also purchased a $100,000 echocardiogram machine for NHH which we will deliver in the near future,” Mr Fisher said.
Partnership with the University Teaching Hospital and the NHH is part of the SACH’s south to south cooperation.
It also has a similar cooperation with Jakaya Kikwete Cardiac Institute.
May Zambia-Israel relationship and collaboration continue to deepen. How I wish we could extend it to net-metering solar technology!
Ok that’s good news.
But how many kids treated from Gaza, just few kilometers away?
Meanwhile the Jewish government has slaughtered over 50, 000 babies, children and mainly women Gaza. What a paradox!
Of those 50000 how many are Hama militants? Accept your ignorance on the dynamics of the Israeli Arab conflict and just thank God for what Israel is doing for Zambia and the children’s mentioned in the subject. As a fact the Latgest Hospital in Gaza was built by the Israelis. Hamas slaughters the Gazans than u know.
They want to use us! You see how we are helping negroes? How can you accuse us of massacring Arabs?
Stop sending our children for experiments by those racists!
By the the University Of Zambia was a blue print and built by Israel and as it is now it was half way done and what have you done with it after Kaunda joined the Palestinian politics? Ask the Arabs in Jordan where they get every drop of fresh water. Its from Israel out of there desalination plants and so is north Egypt and north Saudi Arabia. Go on insult them as they prosper and help those they can. ?This attitude just tells how poor you can be even in thinking
Zionist disciple shut up! Halfway done yakuti? Cant you see how it has grown with more construction? What a narrowminded way of propagandising! And dont you know the Heroes Stadium, the Copperbelt Airport TAZARA etc are all blueprints and built by Chinese?? So should we kneel before everyblueprinter and constructor? We constructed UNZA It was our money.