| Janab Firhad Hakim, Minister for Municipal Affairs & Urban Development, West Bengal inaugurating the ‘24X7 Chest Pain Clinic’ in the presence of Rupak Barua, CEO, BM Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata |
BM Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata, a leading super-specialty hospital recently launched its ‘24X7 Chest Pain Clinic.’
Janab Firhad Hakim, Minister for Municipal Affairs & Urban Development, West Bengal inaugurated the clinic in the presence of Rupak Barua, CEO, BM Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata.
Later elaborating on the initiative, Barua told Express Healthcare, “This initiative by B M Birla Heart will not only help people understand the symptoms but also provide inputs on prevention. The centre aims to provide quality cardiac care to the patients and meet their urgent and critical needs. Keeping in mind that 85 per cent of heart muscle damage occurs during the first two hours of a heart attack and irreversible damage starts within minutes, we have set up the state-of-the-art infrastructure manned by trained personnel to diagnose the cause of chest pain and provide emergency treatment. The main objective of our heart specialists would be to evaluate, diagnose and treat these symptoms in as little time as possible to not only save the person’s life.”
Barua claimed this as to be the first initiative in the eastern part of the country.
He said, “Patients who feel pain in the chest, suffer from breathlessness or any other kind of complications can dial a dedicated number at any time of the day and we will pick up the patient from his / her residence and rush to the hospital in a fully-equipped ambulance.”
The intent of this initiative is to deal with acute chest pain and to provide patients with proper medical attention required.
EH News Bureau