For Musa, it's Always the Reds

For Musa, It's Always The Reds

The Liverpool Football club holds a special place in Musa Hamad's heart. But his 9-year-old heart suffers from a congenital condition known as Pulmonary Stenosis. Running and scoring goals like Mohamed Salah only happens in dreams - the actual football pitch is out of bounds at the moment for Musa.  

He is also a darling of his three elder sisters and a Mama's boy.  

"His three sisters love him to bits. He is a very obliging child and a great help when it comes to household chores," said his mother during her conversation with Kabir Miah, programmes manager, Muntada Aid at Coast General hospital Mombasa where our team is currently on deployment.  

Our team of internationally renowned paediatric cardiac surgeons treated Musa on the third day of their mission. His procedure went well, and hopefully, in the future, he will be scoring goals for his local team and one day for Liverpool FC. 

About Kenya Deployment   

The mission started on the 13th and will continue until 17th December at Coast General hospital Mombasa.    

We are aiming to treat 30-40 children during this deployment.    

During our first deployment in Kenya, our team carried out 35 interventions earlier in July 2021.    

"During our first mission, we found that there is a greater need for such deployments in Kenya. Mombasa is home to over a million people with no paediatric interventional care available to children. Our long-term objective is to build human resources capacity in Kenya so that local doctors can carry out these interventions, " said Kabir Miah, Programmes Manager at Muntada Aid.  

Do You Know?  

Each year an estimated 1.5 million children are born with Congenital Heart Defects.   

10% of babies born with CHD out of 1.5 million do not survive their first year of life  

About Little Hearts Programme  

Our Little Hearts project provides free life-saving heart surgery to babies and children with Congenital Heart Defects from underprivileged families irrespective of gender, race or religion.  

Impact  

Since 2012, the Little Heart team has travelled to 10 different countries carrying out over 22,00 operations and interventions on children. The mission to Kenya is our 35th deployment.