Apollo Hospitals Dhaka and Medtronic Inc. celebrated World Heart Day by organising a health talk session and offered a unique patient centric service to their patients on October 3 at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka. The session focused on patients who might be at risk for sudden cardiac arrest, a condition that affects more than one million people a year and the leading cause of death in US and other nations.
The event was inaugurated by Shams Munwar, coordinator and senior consultant, clinical and interventional cardiology at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka.
The session featured a lecture by Dr A H M Waliul Islam, associate consultant, clinical and interventional cardiology at Apollo Hospitals Dhaka on the risks of sudden cardiac arrest. In addition, Prof Md Shahabuddin Talukder, senior consultant of clinical and interventional cardiology, stressed on the need for patient counseling: “More than ten lac patients died last year due to sudden cardiac arrest, many of whom were undiagnosed prior to it.” Shakira Islam, a patient in the audience, praised the seminar saying: “There are many like me who don’t know enough about heart disease and this kind of learning is beneficial.”
The session was attended by patients, consultants from the cardiology and cardiothoracic department of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka, including R Basil, chief executive officer and executive director, STS Holdings Ltd (owning company of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka), Prasad Muglikar, director of medical services, and the top management of Apollo Hospitals Dhaka. After the informative session, the patients in the audience received a 50% discount on echo screening.