Addressing a press conference today at Manipur Press Club, Dr. P.C. Mondal, Senior Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, Apollo Gleneagles Hospital said that the Hospital is one of the best Hospitals in India in getting health care of global standards to its patients. Heart disease in India has assumed alarming proportions with the average Indian being three to four times more likely to have a heart attack than his/her western counterparts. He added that the minimally invasive cardiac surgery (MICS) is one of their many such initiatives aimed at curing patients in the most effective and least painful manner. Apollo Gleneagles Hospitals has now have tie-ups with the government of Manipur that patients (state government’s employee) can get treatment from any centres of Apollo Hospital and get the reimbursement from the government later, said Mondal. He further said there are various aspects of heart failure and there are five simple solutions; best stress, eat healthy, get active, heart check and quit smoking.
