Dr. Saleem Kassam and others helps donate gamma camera to Rouge Valley Hospital, Ontario

Earlier, Dr. Kassam took a year off his medical training to volunteer with Doctors without Borders [Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)] in a refugee camp for Angolans in Zambia

Cardiac patients at Rouge Valley Health System are benefiting from the donation of a $150,000 state-of-the-art gamma camera to the Cardiac Care Program at Rouge Valley Health System. This nuclear imaging machine ensures that the program stays current and allows the staff be the best at what they do. The gamma camera images the heart and shows blood flow and how the heart functions. It can predict coronary disease and the risk of heart attack.

The camera was generously donated by three cardiac physician leaders at Rouge Valley—Dr. Joe Ricci, Dr. Saleem Kassam and Dr. Ashok Mukherjee—along with Don Patel.

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Letter from the Field: Saleem Kassam, MD

I TOOK A YEAR off my medical training to volunteer with Doctors Without Borders [Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF)]. From Toronto, where I had been living, I left for Amsterdam, where I had a day and a half of briefing and learned where I was going—a camp called Kalabo for Angolan refugees in Zambia.

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