Uganda: Twenty-Three Children Undergo Surgery for Congenital Heart Defects

25 February 2013

"My son, Edrick Mirimu, had been sickly since he was born. Whenever he coughed, his heart would pump so fast that he would vomit.

He also had a fever. For almost two months, he did not have appetite for food or breast milk," recalls Cynthia Nalunga, a resident of Namulanda on Entebbe Road.

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