Giving Hope to Communities
Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim, the chairman of Hwansung Industries Ltd. announces on 16th Aug 2016 to save another
8 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during Aug-Oct this year after sponsoring 8 heart
patients in Feb-May 2016. He will donate 101 million shillings for those 8 heart disease patients, 6 of
which are in desperate need of OPEN HEART SURGERY.
Last year, Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim had disclosed his plan to help 20 heart disease patients during 2016, which
is amounting 250 million Ugandan Shilling.
Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim has kept his personal philosophy of philanthropy by sponsoring 162 heart surgeries for
Ugandan people twice a year since 2007 until May 2016 both in Uganda and South Korea.
Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim, the chairman of Hwansung Industries Ltd. announces on 27th July 2015 to save another 10 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during Aug~Nov this year after sponsoring heart patients in Jan~ Jun 2015. These patients will undergo heart surgery in Mulago hospital by the lead of Dr. Tom Mwambu who had intensive training with his nurse at Samsung Medical center in Korea after arrangement by Mr. Kim. Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim also opens his plan to help another 20 heart disease patients in 2016, which is amounting 250 million Ugandan Shilling. Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim has kept his personal philosophy of philanthropy by sponsoring 146 heart surgeries for Ugandan people twice a year since 2007 until Jun 2015 both in Uganda and South Korea.
Mr. SUNG-HWAN KIM, the founder and chairman of ‘Hwansung Medical Charity Services' announces on 1ST APR
to save another
10 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during Apr~Jun this year after sponsoring 10 heart
patients in Mar~ May 2013.
These patients will undergo heart surgery in Uganda Heart Institute in Mulago hospital by the lead of
Dr. Tom Mwambu and his team.
He also opens his plan to help another 10 heart disease patients at 3rd quarter this year.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services has sponsored 130 cases of heart surgery until 2013 since 2007.
Mr. JEUNG-BONG, AHN, the Co-founder and vice-chairman of ‘Hwansung Medical Charity Services’ announces
on 19th March to save another 10 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during Apr~May this
year after sponsoring 10 heart patients in Aug~Oct 2012.
These patients will undergo heart surgery in Uganda Heart Institute in Mulago hospital by the lead of
Dr. Tom Mwanbu and his team.
Mr. J.B AHN says he is happy to see the technical development of UHI surgeons which allows more patients
treated in Uganda. He also opens his plan to help another 10 heart disease patients at 3rd quarter this
year. Hwansung Medical Charity Services has sponsored 120 cases of heart surgery until Oct 2012 since
2007.
On Feb 2012, Mr. SUNG-HWAN, KIM, the founder of 'Hwansung Medical Charity Services' announced again to
save 10 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during March~ May in 2012.
On Aug 09, 2012 Mr. JEUNG-BONG, AHN, the Co-founder and vice-chairman of 'Hwansung Medical Charity
Services' announces to save another 10 Ugandan lives with free heart surgery sponsorship during Aug~Sep
this year after sponsoring 10 heart patients in March~ April 2012. Among the 10 beneficiaries, Kanku
Shadrack who appealed for support on New Vision newspaper 25th Jun 2012 is included.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services has sponsored 110 cases of heart surgery until May 2012 since 2007.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services who has provided hope of new life to desperate heart patients in East Africa by sponsoring heart surgeries has accomplished 100 cases of Heart surgery since its establishment in 2007 From 15th June 2011, Hwansung had started the sponsoring program of free heart surgeries which covers the operation and admission for 8 needy Ugandan patients. The operations for them had been performed during June and July 2011 by the specially organized Ugandan medical team at Mulago Hospital led by Dr. Mwambu Tom Phillip who is a cardiac surgeon at Uganda Heart Institute and had a professional heart operation training at Cardiac Vascular Centre, Samsung Seoul Hospital in 2010 under full sponsorship by Hwansung.
On 10th October 2011, Hwansung Medical Charity Services and Uganda Heart Institute signed a Surgery sponsorship agreement for the 7 heart patients in its main office in Ntinda, Kampala. IN this press conference, Founder, Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim said "My birth country, Korea has also many desperate patients. But my priority is the Ugandan patients because I made my business success here in Uganda and I wanted to return the successful results to the people of Uganda." From 15th Oct 2011, Hwansung had started the sponsoring program of free heart surgeries which covers the operation and admission for 7 infants and adults patients. The operations for them had been performed during October and November 2011 by the specially organized Ugandan medical team at Mulago Hospital led by Dr. Michael Okecho a cardiac surgeon at Uganda Heart Institute.
In October 2011, Hwansung Medical had made a full support to an Indian resident in Kampala covering the hospital fee and round flight tickets from an acute Yellow Fever disease.
In February and October 2010, the Charity funded total US$30,000(about Ushs 70,000,000) for the project to extend the building of Golden Berry Nursery and Primary School at Wakiso, Namugongo, Kampala Uganda which has been operated by a Korean Christian Missionary, Mrs. J.S Ahn and her husband, Mr. Asea. The school wanted to allow more access to education for the less privileged children through extending the school building but its financial situation was not very stable. Since the support to the disadvantageous communities is also as much important as the charitable medical services for poor patients, the Charity has continuously helped communities in Uganda. . In March 2010, the Charity sponsored 16 poor baby heart patients so that they could get charitable closed heart surgery in Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital. The baby heart patients were aged from 2 months to 2 years and the majority of them were being raised by the poor family residing in remote upcountry of Uganda. Because the family was too poor to afford even the transport to Kampala for the charitable surgery, the sponsorship by the Charity, a sort of life giving-water to the baby patients was again implemented during November and December 2010 by the specially organized Ugandan medical team at Mulago Hospital led by Dr. Mwamu Tom Phillip and Ms. Oketayot Anna Noland who are the cardiac surgeon and the nursing officer at Uganda Heart Institute and head a professional heart operation training at cardiac Vascular Centre, Samsung Seoul Hospital last year under full sponsorship by Hwansung.
In June 2010, the Charity fully sponsored 2 Ugandan medical practitioners to have advanced professional job trainings and 2 Ugandan heart patients to get free open heart surgery for valve replacement at Cardiac Vascular Center, Samsung Seoul Hospital, South Korea. The Charity had already made the land mark by arranging the first valve replacement surgery in Uganda by inviting a medical team of experts from South Korea 2009 and now is supporting Ugandan doctors and nurses to increase their capacity in the field of open heart surgery, and especially in the filed of valve replacement and intensive care, so that they can carry out and manage the surgery and intensive care by themselves in the future and help the vulnerable heart patients in Uganda.
9 desperately disadvantaged Ugandan heart patients found hope to avoid their fatal destiny through a charitable medical service program by the Charity in December 2010. The Charity arranged and implemented the charitable heart operations on 9 needy vulnerable Ugandan heart patients by contributing all the medical fees and inpatient welfares for the programmed charitable surgeries to IHK (International Hospital Kampala) that provided medical facilities for the charitable surgeries and managed the medical team of the invited U.K. surgeons and the Ugandan medical assistants. The operations were performed by the specially invited surgeons from U.K. led by Dr. Clement Agyin, a British National of Ghanaian descent working at St. Anthony's Hospital in London.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services have made a groundbreaking achievement in its charitable activities for Ugandan and Kenyan poor heart patients. So far to the end of December 2010 from April 2007 which was established, the Charity has fully and exclusively sponsored 86 cases of free charitable heart surgeries. Among total 86 cases, 11 patients got open heart surgery in Seoul, South Korea and 27 patients in Ugandan by the specially invited medical team of experts from South Korea and U.K. and another 40 patients by Ugandan local doctors and the other 8 Kenyan heart patients at Mater Hospital and Kenyata Hospital in Kenya. The Charity has also helped many other poor patients suffering Cataract, Cleft Lip, Cancer and other bas illnesses and supported some NGOs that serving for disadvantaged communities in Uganda.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services made a great contribution to a major breakthrough and the set-up of a milestone in the field of open-heart surgery and intensive care in Uganda when the joint operation team by both the invited Korean and local doctors successfully carried out 6 cases of charitable open heart surgeries at Uganda Heart Institute, Uganda National Mulago Hospital. Uganda has thousands of heart patients who desperately need open heart surgery but it does not have yet enough skilled professionals to manage the surgery and the intensive care involved. The Charity, therefore, invited a South Korean medical team of experts consisted of 2 cardiac surgeons, a perfusionist, a anesthesiologist and 3 intensive care nurses in order to perform the free charitable open heart surgery for 6 needy Ugandan heart patients from 30 March 2009 to 03 April 2008 at Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital.
Uganda has thousands of heart patients who desperately need open heart surgery but it does not have yet enough skilled professionals to manage the surgery and the intensive care involved. The Charity, therefore, invited a South Korean medical team of experts consisted of 2 cardiac surgeons, a perfusionist, a anesthesiologist and 3 intensive care nurses in order to perform the free charitable open heart surgery for 6 needy Ugandan heart patients from 30 March 2009 to 03 April 2008 at Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital.
The doctors and nurses from Cardiac Vascular Centre, Sam Sung Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea served for the free charitable open heart surgeries through personal sacrifice and without any material reward, and the Charity sponsored fully and exclusively all the costs and expenses for the charitable event, including all the medical materials, medical fees and the travel expenses for the invited medical team.
By the Korean professional medical practitioners' performing open heart surgery and intensive care in Uganda, Ugandan doctors and nurses could be able to benefit from their expertise to perform open heart surgery
including valve replacement operations. It was an additional advantage in terms of offering education to Ugandan doctors and nurses with using the most highly qualified professionals and not to mention the benefits to the patients. Ugandan doctors believed that starting heart valve replacement surgery in Uganda would be a breakthrough of great value in Ugandan heart operation history. There had been some cases that other foreign teams had partnered before with Ugandan medical teams but no team had performed heart valve replacement surgery by that time in Uganda.
All the benefited patients who were sponsored by the Charity and operated by the South Korean medical team of experts, had been enduring the pain for years and were just surviving with hopeless future in danger to lose their life anytime as there was no hope they could raise the huge cost of over USD15,000 of which amount is the cheapest when they travel to India for the surgery, or over USD25,000 of which amount is normal when they travel to U.K. or South Korea. The Charity saved 6 heart patients who had practically hanged their lives on a fragile thread and who were desperately waiting to have open heart surgery done for their survival but could not afford the cost. The beneficiaries for the charitable open heart surgery were Ms. Apili Scovia(17), Badaru Nelda (24), Adikini Evelyn (21), Mr. Kalema Devis(29), Ms. Kobweni Judith(23) and Ms. Asimo Margret(44).
Following the 1st and 2nd group in April 2008 and September 2008, in November 2009 the Charity arranged and sponsored the 3rd group of 3 Uganda heart patients to undergo charitable open heart surgery and heart valve replacement in South Korea. Nalukwago Shamin(12 year old female), Aceng Epilla (35 year old female) and Sworo Chaplain Kiri (25 year old male and Sudanese refugee) are the beneficiaries who started off for South Korea as the members of the 3rd Group. The Charity also arranged Ugandan nurse guardian (Mr. Ekya Bosco, 41 year old male) to accompany the patients so that the patients could travel safely and be taken care after the operations. Again by favor of Dr. Pyo-Won Par, the Director of the Cardiac and Vascular Center, Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea and his medical team's devoted service and kind cooperation, the open heart surgeries for Nalukwago Shamin and Sworo Chaplain Kiri, and the heart valve replacement for Aceng Epilla were very successfully carried out. Among 3 patients, there was a South Sudanese refugee, Sworo Chaplain Kiri, who had complicated matters to get entry visa to travel abroad. But, the Embassy of the Republic of Korea in Kenya and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the Republic of Korea gave him humanitarian consideration for his entry permission. heart patients in other countries of East Africa so that such patients could avoid their fatal destiny and have new life. In November 2009, the Charity sponsored 8 desperate Kenyan heart patients to get charitable heart surgery through Hwan Sung (Kenya) Ind. Ltd. which is the subsidiary company of Hwansung Group of Companies and mainly manufacturing furniture in Nairobi. The beneficiaries for the charitable heart event were selected among the applicants for the charitable heart surgery program which had been specially planned and organized by Hwansung (K) Ind. Ltd. Among the total of 8 cases of charitable operations, 4 cases of open heart surgeries and 2 cases of closed heart surgeries were carried out at Mater Hospital and the other 2 cases of closed heart surgeries at Kenyata Hospital. The Charity funded the Company the medical fee of Ksh2.4m (Eq. USD32,432) for the 8 cases of charitable heart surgeries involved.
In year 2009, the Charity also sponsored many young infants and children who required immediate surgery to get charitable operation at Uganda Heart Institute (UHI), Mulago Hospital. Including 9 month old Namuymba Annet, 8 month old Nassozi Mayimuna, 5 month old Luwazo Josep, 16 year old Nyabongo Dick, total 7 infants and children had new life under full sponsorship by the Charity.
Only in 2009, Charity fully and exclusively sponsored 24 cases of free charitable heart surgeries and gave the patients new life. Among total 24 cases, 3 patients got open heart surgery and new life at Cardiac Vascular Centre, Sam Sung Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea and 6 patients at Uganda Heart Institute, Uganda National Mulago Hospital by the specially invited medical team of experts from South Korea. Another 8 patients could have hopeful future after getting heart surgery by Ugandan doctors at Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital who had been educated by invited Korean medical team of experts. The Charity also sponsored 8 Kenya heart patients to get charitable heart surgery through Hwansung (Kenya) Ind. Ltd. So far since it was established in April 2007, the Charity has fully and exclusively sponsored 50 cases of free charitable heart surgeries. Among total 50 cases, 9 patients got open heart surgery in Seoul, Korea and 18 patients in Uganda by the specially invited medical team of experts from South Korea and U.K. and another 8 patients by Ugandan local doctors and the other 8 Kenyan heart patients at Mater Hospital and Kenyata Hospital in Kenya. In addition, the Charity also sponsored and took care of many other patients who were suffering from cataract, cleft lip or some other bad illness, and the needy communities who were desperately in need of charitable.
In year 2008, Hwansung Medical Charity Services implemented more free charitable projects which had significantly brought impact on the welfare of Uganda communities and poor patients. 6 more heart patients found hope to avoid their fatal destiny at Hwansung Medical Charity Services. The Charity made 6 heart patients to have free charitable open heart surgeries again at International Hospital Kampala(IHK) at the end of February 2008 of which all the costs and expenses were taken care of by the Charity. Five year old Yvonne Akello would have been a bright and smart child if it was not for the times she used to miss school due to recurrent fevers. Yvonne was weak and her heart beat would destabilize with slightest stress or pressure, so she remains on the outskirts watching enviously instead of joining them while her age mates play away, and such had been her life. After several visits to hospitals, it was discovered in 2004 at Mulago Heart Institute that the problem was with the little girl's heart. She needed surgery to correct the problem but it was too expensive to afford it. But, Yvonne's misery had been turned to joy because Hwansung Medical Charity Services helped her with sponsoring all the medical bills for her open heart surgery.
The Charity arranged and organized the free charitable surgeries for 6 poor Ugandans and sponsored all the medical bills. A specialized team of medical doctors from the U.K. led by Dr. Clement Agyin, a British national of Ghanaian descent, working at St. Anthony's Hospital in London oversaw the free charitable surgeries. The medical team of foreign and local doctors operated Aziz Abdullah 6 year old from Kawempe who was suffering from a very complicated heart diseases known as Tetralogy of Fallot with four abnormalities, ASD, a defective narrow pulmonary valve, obstructed flow through the lungs and a mal-positioned aorta, and Komakech Kennedy 27 year old peasant from Karuma who was suffering from a severe valvular pulmonary stenosis, and Akello .H. Yvonnie 5 year old from Kaberamaido with ASD and for Ayeble Linton 7 year old from Mityana with PS Valvular and for Mwesige Mark 17 year old from Mbarara with secundum ASD, and for Okoth Simon 19 year old from Tororo with severe eccentric LVH 2 sub-aortic stensis.
In April 2008, Hwansung Medical Charity Services arranged and organized three critically complicated heart patients to have free charitable surgeries abroad in South Korea. The beneficiaries were Samuel Erioru, 6, who was suffering from congenital heart disease, William Ntulume, 20, and Agatha Nekesa, 17, with a rheumatic heart disease. The Charity has gone a step ahead to sponsor free charitable surgery for complicated heart diseases with fatal conditions abroad that could not be cured in Uganda. The Charity arranged and funded the surgery fees and traveling costs for the surgeries in South Korea. The chairman of Hwansung Group of Companies personally accompanied the 3 patients and one Uganda guardian to South Korea. The operations were successfully performed in the mid of April 2008 at Cardiac and Vascular Center under Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. The Center has the authority and reputation as the best hospital in the country and most famous in the field of cardiac and vascular surgeries because of its achievement of over 5,000 open heart surgeries and 10,000 cardiovascular surgeries. For the free charitable surgeries, the Samsung Medical Center supported many things and especially Dr. Pyo-Won Park, the Director of the Cardiac and Vascular Center and his medical teams served devotedly.
In September 2008, three Ugandan heart patients left for South Korea for surgery courtesy of Hwansung Medical Charity Services. The Charity helped three poor Ugandan heart patients to get free charitable surgery abroad again after sponsoring three open heart surgeries on April 2008 in South Korea. Four year old Jessica Arec, eleven year old Zainab Naluwooza and twenty six year old Ketty Driciru were the second batch of patients to travel to South Korea under the full sponsorship of the Charity. Driciru was suffering from rheumatic heart disease, while Naluwooza and Arec had congenital complications. The operations were also performed at Cardiac and Vascular Center under Samsung Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. The Charity is obliged to heartily appreciate the kind cooperation and the dedicated services extended by the Samsung Medical Center and Dr. Pyo-Won Park, the Director of the Cardiac and Vascular Center and the doctors and nurses in charge. In year 2008, many young infants and children who required immediate surgeries were also operated under full sponsorship of Hwansung Medical Charity Services at Uganda Heart Institute (UHI) Mulago Hospital. Most of them had very serious PDA (Patent Ductus Arteriosus) heart conditions and needed very urgent heart surgery. 3 year old Kamunyoro Martin from Gulu, 11 month old Nanjobe Mercy from Gayaza, 5 year old Walusimbi simone 5 from Kampala, 6 week old Kisa Betty from Wakiso, 8 year old Katushabe Ritah from Kajjansi 1 year and 6 month old Ainembabzi Linet form Rukungiri, 4 month old Nakayiza Tracy from Mutundwe, 5 month old Namyalo Doreen from Makindye and 16 year old Wanyana Alice from Nakwero could have their new life under the free charitable projects from Hwansung Medical Charity Services. The Charity had also helped many other Ugandan patients who suffer from cataract, cleft lip, cancer and some other major illnesses. It had helped hundreds of poor Ugandan patients. In addition, the Charity supported materials in urgent need or the necessities of life for the needy communities in Uganda. It had donated a mobile clinic office for a Ugandan NGO which supports the elderly, the widows and orphans affected by HIV.
During the year of 2008, the Charity fully and exclusively sponsored 20 cases of free charitable heart surgeries and gave the patients new lives. Among total 20 cases, 6 patients got open heart surgery and new life at Cardiac Vascular Centre, Sam Sung Medical Centre, Seoul, Korea and another 6 patients at International Hospital Kampala by the specially invited medical team of experts from U.K. The other 8 patients could also have better life after getting heart surgery at Uganda Heart Institute, Mulago Hospital. In addition, the Charity also sponsored and took care of many other patients who were suffering from cataract, cleft lip or some other bad illness, and the needy communities who were desperately in need of charitable sponsorship.
Hwansung Medical Charity Services started its charity project by helping five poor Ugandan patients who were suffering from complicated heart diseases. The Charity planned and organized the project and funded all the cost, expenses and medical fees for the free charitable surgeries. The operations were successfully carried out at International Hospital Kampala(IHK) at the beginning of October 2007 by a specialist medical team which consisted of specially invited medical practitioners from London and local doctors. Dr. Clement Agyin, a British national of Ghanaian descent, working at St. Anthony's Hospital in London led the operation team of foreign and local doctors which conducted the heart surgeries. By that time, it was considered as the second and largest scale in the history of open heart surgeries that have been done in Uganda. It was also a historic event for the development in the field of open heart surgery and intensive care in Uganda as IHK Managing Director described it as a breakthrough.
For Patrick Imoni (30 year old), a peasant from Tororo, his life was practically hanging on a thread. Even if he were to sell all properties he owns, he could not afford the huge medical cost for the open heart surgery. In 2005, his family brought him to Kampala for thorough tests and knew that he was suffering from Artrial Septal Defects(ASD). The doctor in charge said the only way to correct it would be with Open Heart Surgery. His family made a drastic decision and sold all their livestock, but they could not afford the medical cost for his surgery. Imoni went back to the village to await his fate. But, Hwansung Medical Charity Services sponsored all his open heart surgery bills at IHK and saved his life. Apart from Imoni, the other beneficiaries are 11-month-old Dan Bakira, Rashid Matouv 8, Afra Namirimu 10 and Thabit Senfuka 24.
After the operations, Dr, Clement the Heart Surgeon who performed the surgeries said all the patients were on the borderline to the death and they were not going to live much longer without the operations. Sung-Hwan Kim, the chairman of Hwansung Group of Companies told the press conference that he was very pleased to give new lives to five Ugandans and he would continuously help the poor in the future because it is his way of returning the favor and his earned profits in doing business in Uganda for Ugandan people and communities.
In November 2007, the Charity fully sponsored a free charitable heart surgery for a child heart patient who was suffering from serious Patent Ductus Arteriosus(PDA). The Charity decided to take keen attention and interest in helping the disadvantaged Ugandan infants and children.
Apart from the sponsorship of the Open Heart Surgeries, the Charity also helped a lot of needy vulnerable people in Uganda with implementing many other free medical projects. For example, 8 patients who were suffering from very serious eye diseases which can cause a gradual loss of sight, and dozens of poor patients who were suffering from cancer, cleft lip, burned wound and other major illnesses etc received surgeries and treatments under full sponsorship by the Charity.
During such short period of the year since it was established in April 2007, the Charity gave new lives to 6 needy Ugandan heart patients and help lots of the needy patients who were suffering from Cataract, Cleft Lip, Cancer, serious burn or some other major illness.
Surgery during Jan ~ Jul this year and another 10 patients will be selected after the first group surgery. Last year, Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim sponsored 220 Million Shillings for 16 heart patients and 12 of them had gone through Open Heart surgery. Mr. Sung-Hwan Kim has kept his personal philosophy of philanthropy by sponsoring 170 heart surgeries for Ugandan people twice a year since 2007 until Dec 2016 both in Uganda and South Korea.
