Davila Children's Home realized action against Rheumatic Heart Disease

Altogether 146 exams were realized and 4 cases are found

With the purpose to realized free exams to detect Rheumatic Heart Disease on kids between 6 and 17 years old, the Davila Children’s Home received, on 13 March, the team of doctors from Tenwek Hospital.

The exams were made using the infrastructure of the orphanage, like rooms and dormitories and the process takes approximately 20 minutes for each patient. To everybody have been comfortable, boys and girls were divided between different rooms during the process.

Overall 146 exams were realized. From these numbers, 130 were kids and 16 adults.

To David Langat, Director from Davila Children’s Home, this number is so representative because this quantity shows how these parents are concerned with the health care of their children and just stimulated the institution to create more actions like this, in the future.

One of the doctors who act directly in the front line of these exams, the Echocardiographer Bernard Ngetich, says this kind of movement is very important because this disease is very common between kids how live in poor areas and don't have access to this kind of information. The awareness about this disease is the first step to fight against her.

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