Hole In Heart Children In Ghana: Chinese Heart Foundation Comes To The Rescue | Health

A Chinese charity basis, the Shen Yang & Shen Yuet Children’s Heart Foundation, has agreed and introduced its resolution to pay for the excessive value of treating some kids in Ghana with a gap in coronary heart illness for the subsequent 10 years.

The common value of surgical procedure between 6,000 to 13,000 USD per affected person will probably be paid for by the inspiration yearly for the subsequent ten years.

The Chinese charity basis is known as after 17-year-old Shen Yang, himself a hole-in-heart survivor and son of Chinese investor Shen Yan Chang, the founder and chairman of the SUNDA & KEDA International Group of Companies.

This charity initiative for hole-in-heart kids in Ghana was advocated by Herbert Mensah, former Asante Kotoko chairman and president of the May 9 Foundation, who himself has been personally concerned in elevating funds for the therapy of such kids and different needy folks in Ghana through the years by means of his May 9 charity Foundation.

According to Herbert Mensah, his goal is to carry reduction, by means of a number of streams of donations, to the multitudes of youngsters and their poor households who hitherto couldn’t afford the excessive value of treating the outlet in coronary heart illness on the nationwide cardiothoracic centre on the Korle Bu instructing hospital.

The Shen Yang and Shen Yuet Children’s Heart Foundation signed an settlement with the Cardiothoracic Centre in Korle Bu, pledging to help 25 beneficiaries of the hole-in-heart therapy every year. These beneficiaries will probably be chosen from needy candidates to the inspiration.

Dr. Kow Entsua-Mensah, a marketing consultant on the National Cardiothoracic Centre stated one baby out of 100 births in Ghana has a coronary heart or chest situation with smoking, extreme consuming, extended publicity to X-rays and poor consuming habits by pregnant girls named as a number of the causes of coronary heart and chest situations in kids. The taking of medication with out prescription and the failure of some expectant moms to attend antenatal care are the opposite causes.

Chief government officer of the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital, Dr. Opoku Ware Ampomah welcomed the beneficiant initiative of Shen Yang & Shen Yuet Children’s Heart Foundation and their related SUNDA & KEDA International Group of Companies in Ghana saying, it got here at an essential interval to the centre and to poor households as a result of it had change into much more tough through the current depreciation of the Ghana cedi as a result of the price of gear for treating the illness is usually quoted in USD.

The SUNDA & KEDA International Group of Companies have been working in Ghana for the final 20 years and immediately make use of over 7 thousand Ghanaians. They’re main producers and distributors of family consumable merchandise equivalent to ceramics, {hardware} equipment, day by day cleansing and private care merchandise, diapers and lots of others.

This newest charity initiative provides to a protracted record of company & socially accountable actions of their areas of operations. They have prior to now supported households of victims of the Accra sports activities stadium catastrophe, fuel explosion and flood victims, disabled teams and lots of others in Ghana.

Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana

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