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Australian High Commissioner's Visit to Open Heart International DAP Project in Kigali, Rwanda

Australian High Commissioner's Visit to Open Heart International DAP Project in Kigali, Rwanda

 

High Commissioner H.E. Geoff Tooth (front background, right) with the Australian surgeons in the operating room. A team of 37 Australian volunteers from Open Heart International were in Rwanda for two weeks to perform corrective surgery on 20 to 25 children with congenital heart defects or suffering from rheumatic heart disease at the King Faisal Hospital in Kigali.

High Commissioner H.E. Geoff Tooth being briefed on the surgery operations

The Australian surgeons operating on a child

A Rwandese child in the hospital with his father

A child patient plays with a balloon

A child patient plays with a nurse

A child patient proudly shows off his stitches after open heart surgery

An Australian surgeon poses with a child patient

Australian surgeons have a light moment with the patients and their families

Australian High Commissioner H.E. Geoff Tooth and First Secretary Simon Anderson (far right) with volunteer Australian surgeons. The High Commissioner hosted a cocktail reception for the surgeons in Kigali.