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A Boy Named Chance in a Land Without Heart Surgeons

By bwg | NY Times, Team Heart | Comments are Closed | 9 October, 2018 | 1

I went to Kigali in Rwanda to report on the type of heart disease afflicting Chance and millions of other young people. I was supposed to be a fly on the wall. Before I knew it, I was trying to help. By Denise Grady At 16, Chance Mwunguzi had been sick for years, and hisRead more

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