Ghana: 12 Kids Receive Free Cardiac Surgery

Kumasi — A TEAM of cardiac surgeons from Boston's Children's Hospital, of Harvard University, in the United States of America (USA), has arrived in Kumasi to undertake the second phase of free cardiac surgery for children, under a Boston Hospital-Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH) collaboration.

Led by Dr. Francis Fynn Thompson and Dr. Beverly Small, of the department of the Cardiac Surgery of Boston's Children's Hospital, the team, comprising medical personnel, including Dr. Ofori Amanfo, a cardio and intensive care specialist, and volunteers, would operate on between 10 and 12 patients, from 80 children with congenital heart diseases within 10 days.

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