Port Blair, July 03: Mr. Kuldeep Rai Sharma, Member of Parliament, A&N Islands has requested the Lt. Governor, A&N Islands to consider for early establishment of CATH Lab in GB Pant Hospital, Port Blair for diagnose and treatment of heart patients.
He informed that the people suffering with coronary heart disease is in rise and in the recent past we have across many young people losing their life because of lack of or absence of medical facilities in our hospitals to treat Cardiovascular disease. The patient suffering from heart disease is kept under observation with medication and on becoming stable is referred to the hospitals in mainland for undergoing specialized cardiovascular treatment. The delay in providing cardiac treatment not only involve risk of life for the patient but also require incurring of huge expenditure which is beyond the reach of a common Islander. Hence, an urgent need is felt to establish a Cardiac Cath Lab in the G.B Pant Government Hospital, Port Blair so that the process of coronary angiography and angioplasty etc. can be performed here in the Islands giving respite to the Islanders.
He further said that the former Lieutenant Governor Mr. Jagdish Mukhi during his visit to the G B Pant Hospital in the month of June 2017 expressed concern on the slow progress in establishing the CATH Lab and he was assured by the authority concerned that the CATH lab at G B Pant hospital will be operationalised with in a month’s time.
However, more than three years have passed since commitment and Islanders are becoming the victims of the heart disease in absence of the specialized treatment for which CATH lab is necessary. Therefore, the Member of Parliament Mr. Sharma has requested the Lt. Governor to expedite the matter for establishment of CATH Lab in the G B Pant hospital so that the cardiac treatment facility becomes available to the Islanders at the earliest.
