Advanced heart failure treatment at city hospital

Dr Sandeep Attawar, Programme Director and Chair Cardiac Surgeries, Thoracic Organ Transplant, Gleneagles Global Hospitals said that they opt for rehospitalisation for the same condition.  Keeping this in mind, the hospital, in association with Vaso-Medictech Pvt Ltd., on Friday, launched the ‘Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program’ (AHF-TP) which aims to identify the prevalence of heart failure in India. 

“The ‘Gleneagles Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Programme’ will look to open 100 ‘Gleneagles Heart Failure Clinics’ across the country where one can seek consultation. In the first phase two clinics will be set up in Chennai, and centres will begin to function in other parts of the country as well. 

The centres will enable patients to undergo procedures like Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) treatment and optimisation of medical therapy, which will be provided for 35 days as an out-patient day care treatment,” he said, adding that during the treatment, proper counselling will be provided to patient on life style management and drug adherence. 

“Our aim is to counter the lack of knowledge and lack of comprehensive heart failure treatment programmes in India and also to have India’s first online heart failure registry,” said Ramesh Krishnan, CEO, India Operations Division, Parkway Pantai Limited.