GITEGA, December 6th (ABP) – On Tuesday 3 December 2024, the Bonne Action Umugiraneza Foundation of Burundi’s First Lady, Mrs. Angeline Ndayishimiye, welcomed a team of doctors specialising in paediatric surgery from the NGO ‘Emergency Onlus’ to the Umugiraneza Polyclinic in Kibimba, in the commune of Giheta, province of Gitega (Burundi’s political capital and center), for the fourth time since 2023.
In an interview with the coordinator of the Bonne Action Umugiraneza foundation, Aimable Sindayikengera, the doctors will be carrying out consultations on children showing signs of congenital malformations, to identify those in an emergency situation so that they can be transferred to Children’s Surgical Hospital in Uganda for free treatment.
According to Mr. Sindayikengera, those children are fully looked after by Emergency ONG Onlus, adding that more than 50 Burundian children under the age of 18 suffering from congenital malformations have been treated through that partnership between the Bonne Action Umugiraneza foundation and the association
Emergency ONG Onlus.
Luka Rolla, Regional Director of Emergency ONG Onlus, praised the activities initiated by Burundi’s First Lady through the Bonne Action Umugiraneza Foundation, particularly in the area of health promotion, a sector in which Emergency ONG Onlus is also active. It is for that reason, he said, that Emergency ONG Onlus has seen fit to collaborate with the foundation, providing free care for children with congenital malformations, with full coverage for the parents accompanying them to Entebe in Uganda.
Finally, Mr. Rolla reaffirmed the association’s commitment to continuing its partnership with the Bonne Action Umugiraneza foundation, in the health sector and elsewhere.
The parents whose children have been treated under that partnership warmly thank the First Lady for her charitable spirit, which led her to seek that partnership in order to save the lives of children born with congenital malformations.
Céleus Miburo, a native of Muruta commune in Kayanza province, told the press that his son was born with that congenital condition and that he was lucky enough to be sent to Children’s Surgical Hospital in Uganda, after a consultation at the Umugiraneza Polyclinic. After treatment, her child’s genitals are normal. ‘I am very grateful to the First Lady for setting up the Bonne Action Umugiraneza foundation, because if it hadn’t been for the Foundation’s assistance, I wouldn’t have had the means to have my son treated,’ said Mr. Miburo. He expressed the hope that the First Lady would support other Burundians suffering from serious illnesses, but who do not have the means to receive treatment.