To provide free heart health assessment to thousands of Mumbai police personnel
Government of Maharashtra, in its first-of-its-kind initiative, announced a collaboration with Asian Heart Institute to provide free heart health assessment to thousands of Mumbai police personnel, on the eve of World Heart Day. On this occasion, Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister launched ‘Heart Health’ screening programme for the Mumbai Police.
The programme is being spearheaded by the chief minister. The first batch of 1000 members of Mumbai Police underwent heart health screening at Naigaon and CPR Training was given to 120 members of police at Asian Heart Institute.
Dr Ramakanta Panda with DrVijay Dsilva, Dr Nilesh Gautam, Dr Santosh Dora and Dr Tilak Suvarna have chalked out a schedule to cover the ‘health screening’ of 5000 policemen in the first phase. A total of 5000 Mumbaikars, including 1000 police personnel will also receive CPR training.
Fadnavis said, “Asian Heart Institute and Dr Ramakanta Panda, have picked up a much needed cause. Prevention is key, especially because in a city like Mumbai, every day can be a new challenge. I am particularly happy that ‘digital records’ will be created for these police personnel. Asian Heart Institute is making a beginning by screening 5000 of the police force, above the age of 40,and I invite other hospitals to also come forward and offer such proposals for departments like the Mumbai Police.”
The following tests on height, weight, blood pressure, ECG, Complete Blood Count, urine routine, HBA1C, cholesterol, triglyceride, HDL, LDL, serum creatinine, uric acid, LFT and doctors consultation, will be put into digital records within four working days. Police personnel who are identified as having heart risk will be shortlisted and provided a stress test.
Dr Ramakanta Panda, Vice Chairman and MD, Asian Heart Institute said, “India has to focus on prevention, because we cannot afford this kind of a healthcare burden. Another aspect is that 70 per cent of heart attacks happen at home. If you revive the person immediately, through CPR, you can save a life.”
The Asian Heart Institute is planning to train 5000 Mumbaikars this year, including 1000 police personnel, and 25000 Mumbaikars over time.
EH News Bureau