Despite being one of the youngest units in India, the Jharkhand Chapter of Cardiological Society of India (CSI), the apex scientific body of Indian Cardiologists, has been unanimously selected as the best branch in the country.
This information reached Dr. Satish Kumar, the President of Jharkhand branch CSI and Additional Director (M&HS), Unit In-charge (Cardiology) at Bokaro General Hospital in BSL on Friday.
This award is based on very stringent criteria that includes number of scientific publications in peer reviewed journals, participation in national registries and studies, awareness programmes conducted by the branch etc.
Dr. Kumar and Dr. Prattay Guha Sarkar, the secretary of Jharkhand branch would be visiting Hyderabad on December 4 to receive this prestigious award during the inaugural function of CSI annual conference. It is noteworthy that the Jharkhand Chapter had also received this award in 2015 at Chennai. Dr. Kumar was secretary of this body at that time whose co-authored Paper was approved for Indian Heart Journal recently.
The CSI works towards prevention of Cardiovascular Diseases (CVD) and the eradication of cardio-vascular mortality to raise awareness among the people about cardiovascular diseases and nutrition diets. The CSI is an active member of the International Society & Federation of Cardiology and Asian Pacific Society of Cardiology and also SAARC society of Cardiology and jointly working with European Society of Cardiology (ESC) and American College of Cardiology (ACC). It work towards increasing awareness about the correlation between cardiovascular diseases and the environment & lifestyle.
The present membership strength of the Society including overseas members is about 4400 and Jharkhand is one of the new units of CSI.