Cure Kids Fiji will now be able to purchase much needed hospital equipment to help children with Rheumatic Heart Disease.
This is after the Fiji Rugby Union handed over a cheque of $5,431 to Cure Kids Fiji today.
While handing over the cheque today, FRU Chairman Francis Kean says they will continue to support the ongoing work Cure Kids Fiji is doing to find solutions to some of the most serious threats to children’s health in Fiji.
He says the funds were raised during the Fiji Rugby Awards Night earlier in the year.
Cure Kids Representative Sally Cooper says these funds will be used to assist with the Oxygen delivery project that Cure Kids Fiji is currently working on with the Ministry of Health.
She says severe pneumonia in children and severe newborn illnesses for which oxygen is a life-saving treatment are the leading causes of deaths in Fiji.
Cooper says this project will help save people.
Cure Kids Fiji was established in 2006.
Rheumatic Heart Disease kills more than 60 Fijians each year.
It is the most common acquired heart disease in children in Fiji, with those aged between 5 and 15 considered most at risk.
