Port Blair, Mar 22: The A&N Administration is committed to provide better health care facilities to residents of these remote Islands .In a way forward the team of intervention cardiology unit have successfully implanted the first permanent pacemaker in the recently installed cardiac Cath lab at GB Pant hospital. The Health department procured the permanent pacemakers on emergency basis during this inclement weather conditions for two patients of complete heart block.
Both the patients were earlier referred to mainland for pacemaker implantation but were not given any treatment. Their condition had worsened and were under temporary pacemaker support in ICU. Two pacemaker implantations were done successfully on 19.03.2022 by Cardiologist Dr. Srikant S in ANIIMS/GB Pant, Hospital Port Blair, along with a support team of Electrophysiology technician and Cath lab scrub nurses ,CCU staff and cardiac Radiographers. At present both the patients are stable and will be discharged shortly.
