kota kinabalu: The Society for the Sabah Heart Fund (SOSHF) has launched a RM150,000 fundraising campaign to finance life-saving heart surgery for three Sabahan children born with congenital heart disease.
The campaign, themed “Help Us Mend 3 More Hearts”, was launched by Sabah Women, Health and People's Wellbeing Minister Datuk Julita Majungki at her office in Wisma Bandaraya on Friday.
The funds will support ventricular septal defect (VSD) closure surgery for three children, namely Mizzle, three, from Tamparuli, Darwish, one, from Inanam, and Ryoddel, 10, from Kudat.
SOSHF president Datuk Eva Susau said the Society aimed to raise the additional RM150,000 ahead of its 45th Anniversary Fundraising Dinner on April 11, 2027.
She said the Society had sent 739 young patients for corrective heart surgery since 1982, with its 2026 government grant fully utilised, including to fund surgery for five urgent patients in September.
