A & N Islands Get Its First Heart Care Centre

Port Blair, June 23: Chakraborty Multispecialty Hospital (CMSH) has formally started its heart care centre, which is now the first Heart Care Centre of Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

“The centre is spread over an area of 3000 sqft and has latest mobile catheterization machine along with 5 bedded CCU & 08 bedded post operative room, IABP and FFR machine to objectively quantify the degree of obstruction. It has already performed 80 coronary angiography, 04 angioplasty and over 50 permanent pacemaker implantations,” a release issued by CMSH said here today.

The centre has three visiting cardiologist from Mumbai and Pondicherry to carry out the work, who comes once every 10 days and stays for 02 days in Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

“This centre has the requisite infrastructure needed to treat heart attack patients in whom immediate treatment can save heart muscle and life. At present child heart surgeries like closure of holes in heart can also be performed,” the release added.

The CMSH is also planning to start cardio thoracic surgery unit soon along with electrophysiology so that open heart surgery and heart rhythm disturbance patients could be treated right here in Andaman.

“Other than heart treatment this centre also offers interventional radiology for nonsurgical treatment like embolisation and coiling for bleeding from any organ,” the release said.

CMSH is the first hospital in Andaman and Nicobar Island to perform operations for permanent pacemaker implantations in remote Andaman and Nicobar Islands.

CMSH  has already associated itself with a IT company in Bangaluru for helping it getting NABH ACCREDITION, the highest accrediting body for hospitals of the country, to standardize its facilities at par with mainland. Incidentally less than 250 hospitals of India have this accreditation.