Starting and Operating a Public Cardiac Catheterization Laboratory in a Low Resource Setting: The Eight-Year Story of the Uganda Heart Institute Catheter Laboratory
By: Joselyn Rwebembera, Twalib Aliku, James Kayima, Sulaiman Lubega, Elias Sebatta, Brian Kiggundu, Daudi Kirenzi, Wilson Nyakoojo, Charles Mondo, Krishna Kumar, Kanishka Ratnayaka, Shakeel Qureshi, Sanjay Daluvoy, Peter Lwabi, John Omagino, Craig Sable, Chris Longenecker, Dan Simon, Marco Costa and Emmy Okello
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.859 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
Language: English
Submitted on: Jul 5, 2020
Accepted on: Jan 13, 2021
Published on: Feb 9, 2021
Published by: Ubiquity Press
In partnership with: Paradigm Publishing Services
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