The Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) will start a cardiology fellowship for clinicians aimed at enhancing their capacity to detect and treat heart related ailments.

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AKUH’s Cardiology Programme Director Mohamed Jeilan said the Cardiology and Cardio-thoracic Surgery Subspecialty Training programme is to be launched in the next two weeks at the university hospital’s main campus in Nairobi.

Clinicians undertaking the three-year course will be able to diagnose heart ailments, treat and where necessary perform surgeries within local hospitals.

The physicians will also be expected to advise families handling an emergency case at home on what to do before a patient is ferried to hospital.

Dr Jeilan said AKUH’s move was advised by Kenya’s present predicament where heart ailments were rising fast with local physicians tasked with the burden to attend to heart patients as the country only had 7 neurologists and 47 cardiologists mainly located in Nairobi.

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