Naya Raipur – the fast emerging new administrative headquarters of Chhattisgarh Government is also turning out to be the ‘Centre of Heart Care’ for patients from all over the country and abroad, officials stated.
The free cardiac surgery facility offered by Shri Satya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital is proving to be a boon for patients. The hospital is dedicated for treatment of congenital heart patients, they stated.Within just 20 months of its establishment till August 2014, this hospital has set the record of performing 500 complex yet successful heart surgeries. This includes 212 patients from Chhattisgarh only, claim officials.
Besides, more than 4,000 heart patients, mostly children, have been provided medical services free of cost.Hospital officials informed that within the short span of 20 months, 225 open heart surgeries have been performed at the hospital which mostly includes adult valve replacements and coronary artery bypass grafting.
The hospital offers its free yet high quality services to all without any discrimination of caste, religion, status or nationality. Not only the patients from various states of the country, but the heart patients from neighbouring countries have also availed the free of cost health services provided by the hospital, they stated. Patients from Chhattisgarh, Assam, Bihar, Jammu&Kashmir, Karnataka, Meghalaya, Madhya Pradesh, Odisha, Punjab, Rajasthan, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal, Maharashtra and Andhra Pradesh and also from Bangladesh, Nepal and Nigeria have availed the free medical services of the hospital.
Officers also told that keeping in view the increasing number of congenital heart patient children coming from all over Chhattisgarh and other states of the country, the hospital has been dedicated for providing special child heart care services from February 2014 onwards.
The Hospital now handles a variety of complex Pediatric Cardiac Surgical procedures including Single Ventricle Repairs (Staged Fontan), Arterial Switch Operation, AlCAPA, Senning procedure, Tetrology of Fallot Repair, Ebstein’s repair, Bi-directional Glenn Shunt, TAPVC, Double Aortic Arch ligation, valve repairs etc.
Children with rheumatic valve heart disease, requiring valve repairs are also taken up regularly. As an important step towards widening the scope of heart care for children, the hospital also provides Foetal ECHO Cardiography Services.
Officers informed that the hospital is conducting a preventive and educational health service programme named ‘Divine Child Health Programme’ based on the guidelines of National Child Health Programme. It is a Health Screening Programme, under which the patients are screened for 29 types of conditions.
The renowned doctors are rendering services at Shri Satya Sai Sanjeevani Hospital includes Dr MA Chakravarty (MBBS MS) Coordinator of the hospital, Dr Yogesh C Sathey Pediatric Heart Specialist (MD FNB), Dr Subramanyam C (MD PDCC) In-charge Officer Pediatric Cardiac Anesthesia and Intensive Care, and Dr Krishna Manohar (MS MCH) and several other veteran physicians.