Training Village Health Teams in Rheumatic Heart Care
Preventing heart disease begins far upstream from the operating table. Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD)—a condition that often starts with a simple, untreated sore throat in childhood—remains one of the leading causes of heart complications among young adults in developing regions. During our recent field outreach program, UHI initiated dedicated training workshops for local Village Health […]
Northern Uganda Focus: Expanding Specialized Cardiac Services in Lira
Quality cardiac care should not depend on your sub-county. As part of UHI’s mission to extend specialized medical services nationwide, our medical teams recently conducted a comprehensive outreach drive at Lira Regional Referral Hospital. Over four days, the team screened over 500 patients, performed diagnostic ultrasounds, and managed complex rheumatic heart disease cases. Local clinicians […]
Caught in Time: How Community Screenings Saved Francis’s Life
Francis, a 42-year-old farmer from Mukono, felt fine—just slightly more tired than usual after a day in the fields. He only walked over to the UHI mobile health tent out of curiosity when the outreach team visited his village square. Within minutes of a routine echocardiogram and blood pressure assessment, doctors identified early-stage hypertensive heart […]
Beyond Kampala: Bringing Pediatric Heart Surgeries directly to Jinja
When a child suffers from a congenital heart defect like Patent Ductus Arteriosus (PDA), early intervention is everything. For hundreds of families across Eastern Uganda, however, the financial and logistical burden of traveling to the capital for specialized care has long been a daunting barrier. To bridge this gap, the Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) partnered […]