Tanzania's first paediatric heart surgeon

Despite more than 150,000 Tanzanian children being diagnosed with heart conditions requiring surgery, there is not a single paediatric cardiac surgeon in the country. But that is all about to change.

Tanzania’s first paediatric heart surgeon, Doctor Godwin Godfrey Sharau, examines the heart of six-year-old patient Salma Saidi Issack at the Wolfson Medical Centre in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Picture: Brett Mason/SBS)

Despite more than 150,000 Tanzanian children being diagnosed with heart conditions requiring surgery, there is not a single paediatric cardiac surgeon in the country. But that is all about to change.