Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya), today announced the establishment of its third Heart Centre in Bangalore at St Martha’s Hospital. These centres managed by Narayana Health, provide expertise to hospitals which require specialist interventions in cardiology. The Heart Centre is part of Narayana Health’s larger initiative of making quality healthcare accessible to all.
Rev Dr Bernard Moras, Archbishop of Bangalore inaugurated the centre with his blessings in the presence of Dr Devi Shetty, Chairman, Narayana Health, Sr Prameela, President, St Martha’s Hospital Society and staff of the hospital.
Speaking on the occasion, DrShetty, Chairman, said, “Every year, twenty five lakh people in India are in need of cardiac surgeries. Unfortunately, less than a lakh undergo surgery every year. Looking at this, we at Narayana Health are working towards getting quality healthcare more accessible to the people through several healthcare models. One such model is the ‘Heart Centre’, where we would be offering Narayana Health’s expertise to other multi-specialty hospitals in the field of cardiology.” He added, “We are very happy to be associated with St Martha’s to manage the Heart Centre and through this initiative, we will be able to reach out to many more in need.”
Sr Prameela stated in her address, “The 127 year hospital has been providing quality healthcare at affordable costs over the years to the people of Bangalore, especially for the poor and the marginalised.” Speaking about the establishment of St Martha’s Heart Centre, she said, “the hospital has been upgraded on a regular basis for the benefit of patients and the establishment of St Martha’s Heart Centre is one more step in this direction for which I am most grateful to Dr Shetty for the joint venture.”
The cardiac centres are equipped to offer services for outpatients and inpatients. Services such as pediatric cardiology, ECG, TMT/ stress test, Dobutamine stress test, echo cardiography, holter monitoring and health checkup packages are being offered for outpatients. Intensive care services such as Coronary Care Unit, Cath lab, cardiac cathererization, coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty, electrophysiology study, radio frequency ablation, pacemaker implantation, device closures are being offered for inpatients.
Narayana Health is currently managing heart centres in MS Ramaiah and Chinmaya Mission Hospital in Bangalore and three more in rest of Karnataka at Davengere, Kolar and Dharwad. Narayana Heart Centres are also coming up in Kuppam, Bijapur, Tumkur and Chitradurga.
EH News Bureau
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