National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) in collaboration with Government of Sindh has established second Satellite Cardiac Centre at Shaheed Mohtarma Benazir Bhutto Cardiac Care Hospital in Tando Muhammad Khan to provide comprehensive cardiac services to the people of Sindh at their doorstep.
The inauguration of the Centre was done by Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari alongwith Sindh Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah.
Sharing his view on the occasion, Bilawal Bhutto Zardari congratulated on achieving the milestone established to facilitate people of the vicinity at their doorstep. He said the collaboration has done wonders in Karachi by providing free of cost cardiac treatment, and now they will initiate major cardiac facilities particularly interventional cardiology for both adults and children which will provide relief to the residents of the city. Similar centers with comprehensive heart care facilities will be established soon in the rest of the province.
Syed Murad Ali Shah appreciated the efforts of NICVD to step forward in bridging the gap and leap for the public sector to become the standard bearer and leader in the provision of tertiary cardiac care. He further said that after first satellite centre in Larkana, this is also a great achievement of the institution to inaugurate a new major cardiac facility in Tando Muhammad Khan. The satellite centre is a gift to the people of Sindh, and the government would leave no stone unturned to provide healthcare facilities to the people of the province.
Prof. Nadeem Qamar, Executive Director NICVD said the centre signifies a step on the long path of medical advancement T.M Khan. He was enormously pleased to celebrate the benchmark moment in the evolution of the NICVD. He said that it gave him immense pleasure that NICVD has started totally free of cost major cardiac facilities in T.M. Khan including cardiac emergency, interventional cardiology including primary PCI which is angioplasty during heart attack, adult and paediatric cardiology, critical care, heart bypass surgery, echocardiography, diagnostics, and consulting clinics.
He further added that they were committed to provide state-of-the-art cardiac services to the people of Sindh. H promised two more centers in Sehwan and Sukkur this year, while four more satellites centres in Nawabshah, Khairpur, Hyderabad and Mithi would be operational in 2018.
Health Minister Dr. Sikandar Ali Mandhro said NICVD has been serving the country and has taken a great initiative with the support of government of Sindh to start comprehensive cardiac services in T.M. Khan. He said a long standing need of the people has met with the establishment of this hospital, and the Sindh government is dedicated to providing accessible and efficient health services to the community.
