GROUP OF MEDICAL DOCTORS OFFER MEDICALTREATMENT TO PATIENTS WHO NEED HEART PACEMEKERS

April 10, 2007

A group of medical doctors from Saint Louis Missouri in the U-S are in Belize to offer a free medical procedure to patients who need heart pacemakers installed. The group of five doctors is led by Cardiologist, Doctor David Morton.

Doctor David Morton

“We have come from the United States to help the hospital and to help Mercy Clinic with patients who have heart problems. Specifically to help adjust there medications and to provide expertise and also to implant pace makers my cardiology group has brought a lot of equipment from the United States. We donate all the pace maker equipment to the patients and we also bring some equipment which we will donate to the KHMH. We originally had set up twelve patients who needed pace makers, so far we have identified five of them so we still have a few more to see. We will be right here for the rest of the week seeing patients. We are here at the KHMH and the Mercy Clinic and then another Doctor who is with me here, Dr. Dobmar and we will be divided into two teams and half of us will be going down to PG down to the end of the week. The pace makers regulate your heart beat, if you have slow rate heart beat, it can make you pass out or you can even die from that so the pace maker is a very little electrical device that goes in up underneath your collarbone it has a little battery and a wire that goes down inside your heart and it makes your heart beats regular.”

People who need pacemakers are referred through the Mercy Clinic and the K-H-M-H.Some of the patients that the five-member team has seen are people who already have pacemakers implanted.We caught up with 87 year-old Idolly Williams, one of the patients whose batteries will be replaced today.

Idolly Williams: Patient

“I joined the Mercy Clinic and they told me I cough too hard. They told me that my heart was beating too slow and that’s was five years ago. They gave me a battery, the battery is still here they said they would take it out because it is getting too weak that is the reason I came.”

Marion Ali: Love FM

"How does your heart feels? Idolly Williams: Patient“The heart does not give me any trouble now. It’s just to put in a new battery. So I have to stay until tomorrow. They will operate on it tomorrow take it out and put in a new one. Then they will send me home just like the last time. About nine of us got the battery.” 

Idolly Williams one of the patients who had her batteries replaced.

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