Living with Heart Failure

The Soweto Cardiovascular Research Unit (Socru),

based at the Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital, co-ordinates arange of research into cardiovascular disease in Soweto, South Africa,and promotes research collaboration in this area.

Socru has just published a booklet, Living with heart failure in Soweto, a guide to living positively with heart failure, which Flow Communications designed and printed. Flow also contributed to the writing of the booklet.

The unit works hand-in-hand with the Cardiac Department at the hospital, researching heart disease in patients that visit thehospital’s Cardiac Clinic. The clinic sees approximately 9000 patients per year.