If a person suddenly suffers from chest discomfort, chest pain, pain in jaw, shoulders and up to navel, then he or she should not waste time and go for a check up as it could be a heart attack.
To protect the heart with the right treatment at the right time, a first ‘Chest Pain Clinic’ to be managed on a mobile number 98288 88806 has been set up at Rajasthan Hospital in the state capital.
Any such patient can call the clinic from any village or town to reach out the help, the cardiac expert of the hospital will guide the patient to follow some instruction, and if required a well equipped ambulance would be rushed to the patient’s home, Dr Ravindra Singh Rao, Head, RHL Heart Centre told a press conference here yesterday.
On the basis of symptoms, the treatment process and medicines can be started on the advice of the cardiologist over the phone itself, and if the patients living in rural areas, he would assisted to reach the nearby hospital for immediate care, Dr Rao, an interventional structural cardiologist specialised in Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI), said.
According to a poster released on the occasion, the information given by the relatives of the patient, a free ambulance will be sent from the hospital to the patient’s location. The skilled staff in the fully equipped critical care ambulance will start the treatment after necessary examination of the patient on the spot.
With the patient out of danger, he will be brought safely to the hospital. In the ambulance itself, the formalities related to admitting the patient to the hospital or starting treatment procedure will be completed. Cath Lab will be started even before the patient reaches the hospital.
Dr Rao claimed that no advance payment would be sought from the patient till the full treatment, and if the patient is poor and unable to make payment over the treatment, the hospital would arrange the bill payment through donations or other means.