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GNRC & Escorts Heart Institute Tie Up

The efforts will be to perform most of the cardiac procedures at GNRC

GNRC Hospital

Always taking a lead in offering advanced treatment to people of the North East, GNRC Hospitals, Guwahati has recently tied up with Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre (EHIRC), New Delhi (EHIRC) for providing advanced cardiac care.

GNRC, which started the first cath lab in the North East and pioneered the first open heart surgery in the North East region, is expanding its cardiology services. Thanks to the three-year tie-up, GNRC would now offer complex electro physiology studies, cardiac rhythm management, surgery of infants with complex congenital heart disease, surgery of aneurysm etc. Paediatric cardiology, paediatric cardiac surgery and cardiac electro physiology and high risk cardiac surgeries are new to North East.

According to Dr Upendra Kaul, Executive Director, EHIRC, the partnership was planned for bringing in state-of-the-art facilities in cardio vascular medicine in North East region and to augment the existing cardiac programme of GNRC. Dr Kaul has been associated with GNRC since its inception, even guiding the hospital in its DNB training.

According to Dr NC Borah, CMD, GNRC, "The tie-up entails getting senior consultants from EHIRC for all the disciplines of cardiology and cardio vascular surgery visit GNRC and help the existing programme. The efforts will be to perform most of the cardiac procedures at GNRC. The Escorts team will also provide their expertise to the team at GNRC to handle any type of cardiac emergencies. However, complex procedures in the initial part of the understanding could be shifted to Delhi for patient management." Additionally, GNRC would soon shift its cardiology unit to its other unit at Six Mile. GNRC Six Mile Campus would be named as GNRC Heart Institute.

Under the exchange programme, GNRC consultants from different fields of medicine will visit Delhi to attend periodic training programmes, so that ultimately GNRC and EHIRC combined is able to provide complete cardiac care to patients of the North East region. The existing teaching activities in cardiology in GNRC would be further enhanced. Asked about the financial model of this tie-up, Priyanka Borah, Full-time Director, GNRC, said, "As per the MoU, GNRC and Escorts share the revenue and every three months a progress assessment review is planned."

EHIRC has performed over 1.2 lakh angiography, 30,000 angioplasty and over 66,000 cardiac surgeries, boasting a success rate of 99.6 per cent.

EH News Bureau