• SARAWAK HEART FOUNDATION FUNDS GENETIC TESTING FOR INHERITED CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE

    3 January 2024 – Sarawak Heart Foundation has contributed RM100,000 towards a fund for genetic testing for  inherited cardiovascular disease at Sarawak Heart Centre.   The fund was set up in 2021 with RM50,000 from the Foundation, and has benefitted 58 patients, including 8 children. Last year, the genetic testing service was extended to children  with inherited cardiovascular disease (mainly inherited aortopathies). These children are  under the careful care of the paediatric cardiology team at Sarawak Heart Centre. With  another contribution of RM50,000 from the Foundation last month, the Centre will be able to  support more children.  Consultant cardiologist Dr Oon Yen Yee who initiated the fund, said that the purpose…

  • MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MACHINE FOR SIBU HOSPITAL

    MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING MACHINE FOR SIBU HOSPITAL   The Foundation has successfully raised RM2.02 million for the Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for Sibu Hospital with the final sponsorship of RM300, 000 from Petroleum Sarawak Berhad (PETROS) on 1 December 2023.  At the handing over of the mock cheque for RM250,000, PETROS chairman Tan Sri Datuk Amar Dr Hamid Bugo immediately topped it up with another RM50,000 upon hearing from Foundation deputy chairman YB Dato Sri Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian that the collection was still short of RM30,000. The Ministry of Health Malaysia has also approved an allocation of RM1,208,018.00 for the upgrading of the room for the MRI…

  • Health Awareness in Ba Kelalan

    11 March 2023 A collaboration with Society for Cancer Advocacy & Awareness (SCAN) Kuching and Sarawak Breast Cancer Support Group (SBCSG)  

  • (Update) Fund Drive for MRI Machine for Sibu Hospital

    Sarawak Heart Foundation would like to acknowledge the contributions from corporate donors who have responded to its fund-raising appeal for the purchase of a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) machine for Sibu Hospital: – 1          Hock Peng Furniture & General Contractors Sdn Bhd 2          Simalau Plantation Sdn Bhd 3          Titanium Project Management Sdn Bhd 4          Cahya Mata Sarawak Bhd 5          Harum Bidang Sdn Bhd 6          Asteel Sdn Bhd 7          Samling Resources Bhd 8          R H Forest Corporation Sdn Bhd 9          Sanyan Holdings Sdn Bhd 10        KTS-BLD Foundation 11        TAS Offshore Bhd 12        One Medicare Sdn Bhd 13        Biomedix Solutions Sdn Bhd 14        Sarawak Timber Association 15        Ta Ann Holdings Bhd 16       …

  • Artificial Valves for Heart Patient

    Sarawak Heart Foundation sponsored Transcatheter Bicaval Valves (TRICVALVE) for a heart patient in the Sarawak Heart Centre in October 2022. The valves cost RM100,000. Wilson ak Nyarum, 55, from Serian who has severe tricuspid regurgitation (a leaking valve), suffers from ascites (swollen tummy due to fluid accumulation) and oedema (swollen legs). Medication did not help and his right heart was too weak for surgery.  TRIVALVE is a new treatment that involves the introduction of artificial valves through the vein in the groin and implantation of these valves in the heart, without the need for open heart surgery. The new valves will take over the function of the patient’s leaking valve…

  • Defibrillator Machines, Hospital Hi-Low Double Fowler Ward Beds and Belian Benches for Sarawak Heart Centre

    Sarawak Heart Foundation has donated three units of Defibrillator machines and 10 units of Hospital Hi-Low Double Fowler Ward Beds to Sarawak Heart Centre.  The Defibrillator machines costing RM69,000 replaced the existing old ones and the beds costing RM32,500 are for the use of elderly patients.  The machines and beds were handed over at a simple ceremony at Sarawak Heart Centre on 13 December 2022.   Present at the ceremony were Foundation Deputy Chairman YB Dato Sri Prof Dr Sim Kui Hian and Board Trustees Datin Patinggi Datuk Amar Hajah Jamilah Jamilah Binti Haji Anu, Dato Anne Teng and Ms Pauline Kon.   They also handed over two belian benches to…