Bay Area nurse helps finance life-saving heart surgery for Ugandan children

  • 📰 KPIXtv
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 21 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 12%
  • Publisher: 53%

Canada News News

Canada Canada Latest News,Canada Canada Headlines

A San Mateo County woman who survived a rare form of cancer as a teen has made it her personal mission to help provide life-saving heart surgeries for children in Uganda.

SAN MATEO -- A San Mateo County woman has made it her personal mission to help provide life-saving heart surgeries for children in Uganda.

Billington was volunteering at a children's hospital in Uganda in 2016 when she met Patrick, a two-and- a-half-year-old boy she called Paty. Billington started the nonprofit, Paty's Project, in 2019. Since then, it has provided four heart surgeries for Ugandan children.Doctors performed three other surgeries in India through a partnership with the nonprofit, Healing the Children, in Wisconsin.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 443. in CA

Canada Canada Latest News, Canada Canada Headlines