Summary:
Shailaja assessing the facilities at the cath lab in the SAT Hospital in the capital. She also applauded the team of doctors who provided treatment to so many children within two days of the cath lab’s opening. The cath lab became functional at the SAT hospital at a cost of ?6 crore as part of the plan to expand the paediatric cardiology department. The cath lab treatments were carried out by the hospital’s cardiology department head S.
Lekshmi, under the guidance of K.
Sivakumar, interventional cardiologist at the Madras Medical Mission Hospital. Shylaja said one in hundred babies in Kerala were found to have congenital heart diseases and more than half of such problems could be treated successfully through cath labs without open heart surgeries..