Core Activities
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ATTR Awareness Day @ Sarawak Heart Centre
TRANSTHYRETIN AMYLOIDOSIS PATIENTS’ AWARENESS DAY Sarawak Heart Foundation joined Sarawak Heart Centre and Pfizer Malaysia for a Transthyretin Amyloidosis (ATTR Amyloidosis) Patients’ Awareness Day at Sarawak Heart Centre on 23 July 2022. The event, organised by Sarawak Heart Centre, brought together patients and family members who have benefitted from the genetic testing for inherited cardiovascular disease sponsored by the Foundation. While Dr Oon, neurologist Dr Abby Hoo and Nuclear Medicine specialist Dr Mohammad Fitri Bin Khalil spoke about the disease, who are at risk and the importance of early screening, the patients shared their stories on living with the disease. The Foundation contributed RM50,000 to set up the fund for…
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Health Awareness @ Kampung Mujat, Serian
21 May 2022: A rural health screening project initiated by Kuching City Lions Club and supported by Sarawak Heart Centre, Sarawak Breast Cancer Support Group, St Joseph’s Private School Leo Club and National Population and Family Development Board
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Fund Drive for MRI Machine for Sibu Hospital
The Sarawak Heart Foundation is raising funds for the purchase of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for Sibu Hospital. A number of corporate donors have come forward with their sponsorships namely Sanyan Holdings Sdn Bhd, Samling Resources Bhd, RH Forest Corporation Sdn Bhd, Harum Bidang Sdn Bhd, KTS-BLD Foundation, Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd, Simalau Plantation Sdn Bhd, Hock Peng Furniture and General Contractors Sdn Bhd, Titanium Project Management Sdn Bhd, Asteel Sdn Bhd and TAS Offshore Bhd. The machine, a Philips Diamond Select 1.5T Achieva dStream, costs RM2.6 million and is recommended by Sarawak Heart Centre for Sibu Hospital. Sibu Hospital is in dire need of the MRI machine…
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Portable Oxygen Concentrator Machines for Four Hospitals in Sarawak
Early this year, the Foundation successfully raised RM140,000 for the purchase of four units of portable oxygen concentrator machines for four hospitals in Sarawak. The Foundation would like to thank Sarawak Plantation Agriculture Development Berhad, Reservoir Link Energy Sdn Bhd and Perbena Emas Sdn Bhd for their sponsorships of the machines that were given to Sarawak General Hospital, Sibu Hospital, and Bintulu Hospital respectively. The Foundation donated one to Miri Hospital. The portable oxygen concentrator is important equipment which provides continuous uninterrupted oxygen supply to sick children in situations when conventional oxygen supply using bulky and heavy oxygen tank is not possible such as during inter-hospital transfer by flight. The…
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Health Awareness Programme jointly with Federation of Kuching, Samarahan & Serian Divisions Chinese Associations Youth Section @ Kuching Sentral 14 July 2019
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Our Core Activities
HEART TO HEART PROGRAMME A collaboration between Sarawak Heart Foundation and Sarawak Heart Centre. The Heart To Heart Programme provides financial assistance for poor children suffering from critical heart disease to undergo medical or surgical treatment or procedures, including heart operation, in a hospital within Malaysia. The patients, recommended by the Heart Centre would, otherwise, have to wait for a long time to receive treatment. This initiative will ensure the patients get due attention and treatment and, at the same time, help to ease the backlog of cases at the Heart Centre. Criteria of eligibility Patients who have a good life span. Priority to young children who are born with…
