Patient Stories - Healing Valves Ethiopia

The 45th Beat of Hope - RAHIMA

Rahima is a 14-year-old girl from Harar in the Oromia region who arrived with her uncle, carrying a long history of illness that began in childhood.

A Second Chance for a Child from Sidama

Healing Valves Ethiopia is proud to share the story of our 43rd free life-saving cardiac surgery, made possible through compassion, unity, and hope.

Emebet Bergena Becomes HVE’s 42nd Patient to Receive Life-Saving Cardiac Surgery

𝐅𝐨𝐫 𝟏𝟐 𝐲𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬, 𝐡𝐞𝐫 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐭 𝐚 𝐛𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐬𝐞𝐞.

𝐒𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐢𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐧𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐝 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐧𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬, 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐢𝐧 𝐡𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐝. Today, we celebrate a milestone that means more than numbers.

Zewdinesh became Healing Valves Ethiopia 39th patient to receive free, life-saving open-heart surgery.

𝐈𝐟 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐨𝐝𝐝𝐬 𝐡𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞, 𝐢𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐛𝐞 𝐇𝐢𝐤𝐦𝐚.

𝐀𝐛𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐨𝐦’𝐬 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐲 𝐢𝐬 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐲 𝐚𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞 𝐛𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐝𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐥𝐞𝐧

𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝑯𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕 𝑾𝒂𝒔 𝑭𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒊𝒏𝒈, 𝑩𝒖𝒕 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝑩𝒂𝒃𝒚 𝑵𝒆𝒆𝒅𝒆𝒅 𝑯𝒆𝒓 𝒕𝒐 𝑳𝒊𝒗𝒆..

𝐀 𝐆𝐢𝐟𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐋𝐢𝐟𝐞 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐒𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐥𝐞 - The 35th free Cardiac Surgery.

In the silence before the scalpel, a heartbeat dared to dream again