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‘KCI saves 80bn/- in four year’
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January 29, 2020
29Jan 2020
Getrude Mbago
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The Guardian
‘KCI saves 80bn/- in four year’

JAKAYA Kikwete Cardiac Institute (JKCI) has in the past four years managed to conduct major and minor surgeries to at least 5,744 heart patients saving over 80bn/- that could have been spent in undertaking the operations abroad.

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JKCI executive director, Prof Mohamed Janabi
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JKCI executive director, Prof Mohamed Janabi said yesterday when highlighting the institute’s achievements for the past four years.

According to him, the government could have spent a total 172bn/- to treat the 5,744 patients abroad however, the JKCI managed to spend 86bn/-.

“However, the 86bn/- which was charged for the services were paid through health insurance , government and donors contributions, with few patients paying the medical bills by themselves,” Prof Janabi told a news conference.

Prof Janabi also announced that from next month, JKCI will start offering ‘cardiac ablation’ services as the government’s efforts to reduce the number of referrals abroad.

He said cardiac ablation is a procedure to scar or destroy tissue in your heart that's allowing incorrect electrical signals to cause an abnormal heart rhythm. Diagnostic catheters are threaded through blood vessels to a heart where they are used to map heart's electrical signals.

Prof Janabi said that the service enables specialists to map disorders inside the heart and burn the spots, which emits abnormal heart rates (heartbeats).

“The government has already released about 4.8bn/- and we are now installing the machines ready for the service to kick off,” he said.

Prof Janabi noted that by offering ablation services will continue cutting down the number of heart patients who have been seeking treatments abroad due to lack of the (ablation) machines at the institute.

He further said that the government in collaboration with China is on process to construct another major heart institute at Mloganzila hospital in order to reduce the congestion at the current JKCI and also
expand services to Tanzanians and patients from neighbouring countries.

“JKCI currently receives between 300 and 500 patients a day.

Since its establishment, JKCI has attended a total of 300,836 outpatients and 14,960 inpatients. It had successfully conducted 1,537 major surgeries with only six per cent of deaths, he added.

“We also conducted minor 4,207 surgeries through catheterisation method, which is piercing a small hole on the patient’s thigh, using cathlab. The deaths were only 1.3 per cent, “he said.

The JKCI chief urged Tanzanians to seek for health insurance since treatment for heart complications are somehow expensive.
 
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