What does COVID-19 mean for us? As I write this, I’m relieved to advise that Timor-Leste has only one confirmed case of COVID-19 at this stage. Our focus is always on the health and well-being of our patients, supporters, volunteers and staff. To this end, due to the COVID-19
Our patient Anina will be heading back to Timor-Leste this week, looking forward to celebrating her 28th birthday next month with her new healthy heart. Our volunteer medicos Dr Simon Eggleton and Dr Virag Kushwaha have declared Anina’s mitral balloon procedure a complete success, and say she can look
Our patent Ana has been taking in the sights of Melbourne ahead of her heart surgery. Ana and health support worker/interpreter Merci have had a trip to the beach, visited some of Melbourne's famous street art laneways, and caught up with Kirsty Sword Gusmao, the former first lady of
Our latest patient Ana has arrived! Ana had a heart procedure in Melbourne four years ago, and now she is back for open heart surgery to replace her faulty heart valve. "Thank you to everyone involved for helping me to come to Australia for my second surgery. I am
Our latest patient Ana has had more experience than most with heart treatment in Australia. Four years ago Ana came to Australia for a procedure to repair her faulty heart valve. We’ve stayed in touch and monitored her progress, and now it’s time for another operation, this time open
After screening 125 patients in 3.5 hectic days in Dili, our volunteer medical team members are now on their way home. It's been an enormously successful round of clinics. Our volunteers identified a number of patients that we can help with surgery in Australia. They also had some wonderfully
Our volunteer medical team is hard at work, seeing almost 40 patients on their first day in Timor-Leste. This included some of our previous patients, who our honorary medical adviser Dr Noel Bayley reports are "without exception doing well", and a number that we hope to be able to
We're excited! Our volunteer medical team is once again on its way to Timor-Leste. Volunteer medicos Dr Noel Bayley and Dr Will Wilson will be working alongside local colleagues including Dr Cesaltino Leno from Hospital Nacional Guido Valadares and Dr Joaquina Mourays, from our friends Maluk Timor's rheumatic heart disease
Big-hearted adventurer Sonia Beagley is still a little stumped about what drove her to fly solo to Timor-Leste and summit its highest mountain to support better heart health for the Timorese.For Timorese-born Sonia, it was partly the pull of her heritage; partly family experience with poor heart health. But when
By Ana Saldanha "In Timor-Leste 90 per cent of the people are Roman Catholic, although Animism, a traditional belief system. Old trees, natural landmarks, the uma lulik (sacred house) and animals such as lafaek (crocodile) are considered lulik. Lulik comes from the Tetum word meaning sacred, holy or forbidden.
