The 2013 World Heart Day offered a rare opportunity for the St. Elizabeth Cardiac Centre, Shisong, in Bui Division of the North West Region to showcase messages and latest medical developments in their life saving efforts.

Credited for over 350 open heart diseases since 2009, the Shisong Cardiac Centre introduced a major innovation on September 10, 2013 with the first- ever defibrillator implantation. The new device planted at the sub-clavicle to regulate heart beat helped the patient to be discharged on September 15, barely five days after hospitalisation. The facility helps patients diagnosed with hyper tropic cardio-mypathy.

The Manager of the Shisong  Cardiac Centre Sr. Jethro Nkenglefac and Communication officers, Sisters Appolonia Budzi and Nicoline  Barah Lukong spent  the World Heart Day, sensitising, educating and telling the population about the goodness of the centre and life- saving medical innovations in open heart surgeries, pacemaker implantations, catheterisations,  general consultations and above all, prevention activities as the threatening reality of cardiovascular diseases stares the nation at the face.

Celebrated as a divine gift to Cameroon and Africa, a medical team from the centre also spent the World Heart Day screening for heart diseases. They also travelled to the neighbourhoods of PCHS Kumbo, JMBC Ndu, GBHS and BSS Ndop, PCHS Mankon, GBHS Ntamulung where they educated on signs and symptoms of cardiovascular diseases. After depending on visiting specialists from Europe and America for long, the Shisong Cardiac centre recently welcomed the first ever resident Cardiac surgeon, Dr Charles Mve Mvondo, in Cameroon.