A non-invasive lab was inaugurated in a function held at Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital in Dehradun on Monday and started Vivid E-9 (GE Healthcare) facility in the lab.
This most modern machine was imported from Norway which has the facility of 4-D Echo in it, which is the first of its kind in Uttarakhand. With the help of this machine, modern Echos can be carried out. The inauguration was done by Prof SP Thapliyal, Vice-chairman of SGRR Education Mission.
Interventional and Consultant Cardiologist at Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital, Dr Tanuj Bhatia (DM-Cardiology), while explaining the technical aspect of the machine provided information that this machine is capable of very minute test of the heart.
Till now, Generally 2-D Echo machine was the only one which was used in the Medical field. While in this 4-D Echo machine holds the speciality that the heart can be seen for examination in four dimensions.
Besides this, another merit of the machine is that on the basis of single heart beat, it is quite capable of diagnosing any heart related abnormality. Dr Bhatia told that such patients who have a history heart-attack , abnormal heart beats, short breaths, fainting, etc. are in particular benefited by echo-cardiography test. Principal, Shri Guru Ram Rai Institute of Medical & Health Sciences, Dr NK Singh, Shri Mahant Indiresh Hospital’s Medical Supiretendent Dr Vinay Rai, Additional Medical Superintendent Dr VK Bihari, doctors and staff of the hospital marked the occasion.