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PBS NewsHour. How a volunteer surgical team in Rwanda chooses which patients to save / [produced by NewsHour Productions].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rheumatic heart disease--Treatment--Rwanda.
- Rheumatic heart disease.
- Heart--Surgery--Rwanda.
- Heart.
- Medical care--Rwanda--Decision making.
- Medical care.
- Genre:
- Television news programs.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (7 minutes)
- Place of Publication:
- Arlington, VA : NewsHour Productions, 2019.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Rheumatic heart disease develops when strep throat goes untreated. It causes an estimated 275,000 premature deaths per year, mostly youth in developing countries like Rwanda, where antibiotics are rarely available. Surgery is the only treatment option for advanced cases. Special correspondent Fred de Sam Lazaro reports on a medical team making the wrenching decision of which young lives to save.
- Participant:
- Special correspondent: Fred de Sam Lazaro.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed August 13, 2019).
- OCLC:
- 1119637463
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