Jinnah Hospital claims 99.5% success rate

Dr Fazlur Rahman coronary diseases are one of the major causes of death among the adult population.

LAHORE:

The Cardiac Department of the Jinnah Hospital has attained a 99.50 per cent success rate in open heart surgeries, the highest in the country, claimed hospital administration.

Talking to the media on Sunday, Medical Superintendent Dr Fazlur Rahman said, “Our cardiac unit has now emerged as one of the best in town. A record 700 cardiac patients were operated upon in the last three years with a 99.50 per cent recovery rate.”

He said, “Patients now prefer this hospital because its operation theatres are equipped with the latest medical gadgets. We have a 15-bed cardiac ward and all patients are being cared for properly.”

Dr Rahman said coronary diseases were one of the major causes of death among the adult population, both in rural and urban areas.

Dr Tayyab Pasha, a leading cardiac surgeon, said that during heart surgeries in the past three years, only one 80-year-old patient, suffering from multiple diseases, had died while all other patients recovered and were living healthy lives. He said that the Allama Iqbal Medical College principal had approached the government for the expansion of the ward so that more heart patients could be treated here.

Published in The Express Tribune, December 3^rd, 2012.