Apollo Hospitals launches heart disease prevention and reversal programme

The Healthy Heart Program aims to start a movement #ActBeforeTheAttack and will be available across 60 Apollo Hospitals in India

Apollo Hospitals recently launched the ‘Healthy Heart’ Programme, a heart disease prevention and reversal programme. Ahead of World Heart Day, reportedly the programme is tailored to help persons prone to heart diseases and patients already suffering from heart ailments to arrest and reverse the progress of the disease.

The Healthy Heart Programme is a fee-based, annual, personalised heart disease reversal programme which at enrolment stage classifies patients into high or low risk based on a physical screening encompassing 14 important health parameters. Once enrolled, the programme includes continuing healthy heart doctor consultations, four cardiologist-physician consults/year, diet & lifestyle counselling (yoga, micronutrients and meditation) and continuous monitoring by a Customer Relationship Management infrastructure throughout their treatment. The programme will be applicable across 60 centres of Apollo Hospitals in India. Persons enrolling in the programme are also eligible for a 15 per cent discount for any other interventions that might be required. People undergoing angioplasty or bypass surgery at Apollo Hospitals will be automatically be enrolled into the programme free of cost for a year. This is to enhance the outcome of the interventions and prevent recurrence.

Sangita Reddy, Joint MD, Apollo Hospitals, says, “This programme is developed to engage with patients, as well as those prone to heart disease, well in advance to ensure that they receive all-round consultation and thereby prevent/ reverse the possibility of a heart attack.”