Heart-lung machine installed at GMCH

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 21

A new heart-lung machine, worth Rs1 crore, has been installed at the GMCH, Sector 32, to provide cardiac surgery services.

Till now, the hospital was using an old machine given on loan by the PGI. A team of trained surgeons, anaesthetists, nursing staff, technicians and a fully functional cardiology department will provide optimum operative and post-operative care.

Surgeries for single and multiple cardiac-valve replacement, coronary artery bypass surgery, basic congenital heart surgeries, including surgery in children born with a hole in heart, can now be performed at the hospital.

An MoU between the GMCH and the PGIMER has also been signed by the UT Home Secretary and the PGI Director to provide support to the newly opened services as and when required at

the GMCH.

At present, only the PGI, the PGIMS, Rohtak, and the IGMC, Shimla, are providing these services in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Haryana.

The Director-Principal, GMCH, stated that the full-fledged Department of Cardiovascular Surgery (CTVS) at the hospital would be of huge benefit to the patients of the tricity and neighboring states, who had been waiting to be operated, but had to suffer because of long waiting lists. The patients covered under the Ayushman Bharat Scheme can also easily avail of the service at the GMCH.