A Piedmont Hospital cardiologist is working to improve heart health in his home country of Ethiopia, which he says suffers from an incredibly high death rate from cardiovascular disease.
Dr. Tesfaye Telila practices at Piedmont hospitals in Newnan and Fayetteville. In a couple weeks, during Heart Health Month, he and his wife, Dr. Obsinet Merid, will lead a team of medical volunteers from metro Atlanta to their home country of Ethiopia, where they say heart attacks and strokes don’t just kill the elderly.
“The vast majority of these patients who are dying from heart attacks and strokes are actually very young,” Telila said.
FOX 5 was at Piedmont Newnan Hospital’s cath lab where Dr. Telila was preparing for a full day of procedures.
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