Time for action on “heart disease of the poor”

by IRIN | on May11 2010

CAIRO – Ayman Mahdi Saleh, 32, started to feel pain in his chest soon after he was diagnosed with Rheumatic Heart Disease (RHD). “I started to experience eye blurring, chest pain and dizziness last year but the symptoms have started to become more serious now,” he told IRIN at the National Heart Institute (NHI) in Cairo where he was seeking treatment.

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