Ten Best Heart Hospitals in India

“In today’s competitive world, stress has become an integral part of life.”  This feature  outlines the  urgent need for good cardiac care hospitals and lists the top cardiac hospitals in India.

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Author: Sheetal Pradhan

“Your heart is beating, keeps on repeating,

As you stress out in your board meeting,

Your heart is beating, keeps on repeating,

As pizzas and pastries you go on eating,

Listen to your heart, hear its plea for help,

Take care of it NOW – for time is fleeting.”

In today’s competitive world, stress has become an integral part of life. Every morning you worry about traffic jams and whether you will reach office on time. At work you battle against formidable deadlines. You stress over whether your child has eaten lunch in school and whether he has reached home safely. And at home you worry about what to cook for dinner. To summarize, you cannot escape stress. Add to that, erratic eating habits, frequent consumption of fatty fast food and a sedentary lifestyle, and you have a perfect cocktail which heralds the onset of heart disease. The prevalence of heart disease in the general population is on the rise with the age of onset falling lower than ever before.

There is an urgent need for good cardiac care hospitals, not only for the diagnosis and treatment of cardiac conditions, but also to emphasize on the preventive aspects of heart disease.

The term ‘best hospital’ has several facets to it. It refers to hospitals with highly qualified, experienced doctors, state-of-the-art equipment and ultra modern technology. However, equally important is the availability of compassionate nursing staff, caring technicians and polite receptionists.

Here are some cardiac care institutes that are among the best in India:

· Asian Heart Institute and Research Centre, Mumbai

The Asian Heart Institute and Research Centre, Mumbai, is a 250 bedded speciality heart hospital which offers expert cardiac care at a reasonable price. It is designed to meet international standards in cardiac care. It is a desired destination for medical tourism, attracting patients from Africa where there is a lack of good quality doctors and infrastructure and from the United States and Europe where medical care is extremely expensive with long waiting lists.

Services offered:

Cardiology – Cardiology services include electrocardiography (ECG), echocardiography, stress test, etc. for the early diagnosis of heart disease. The hospital has the first fully digital panel cardiac catheterization laboratory for performing angiographies and angioplasties.

Cardiovascular surgery – The wide range of surgeries performed by the expert team of doctors and paramedical staff consists of coronary artery bypass, heart valve repair or replacement and aneurysm surgery, to mention a few. The institute claims a mortality rate of less than 0.5% which meets global standards.

Preventive Cardiology – This department aims at counseling patients to make lifestyle changes and minimize the risk factors so that the likelihood of developing heart disease is reduced.

Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation – The physiotherapy and rehabilitation programs help the patient to regain his confidence to perform daily activities after a heart attack or after cardiac surgery.

Children’s Heart Centre – The Children’s Heart Centre, designed for pediatric patients, offers quality cardiac care in a friendly setting.

Medical tourism – The institute, which is at a 15 minute drive from the international airport, provides assistance to international patients right from arrival at the airport right up to their departure from India.

· Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Ltd., New Delhi

This institute provides state-of-the-art facilities which match global standards. It conducts ethical research with the aim of developing cheaper modes of treatment for cardiac patients.

Services offered:

Diagnostic services – In addition to the standard diagnostic tests like ECG, echocardiography, etc., this hospital also has a thallium scan which helps to visualize the blood flow to the heart muscles.

Treatment services – Apart from the standard surgical procedures, specialized operations are also performed like transmyocardial laser surgery and heart port surgery which leaves a small cosmetic scar. The robotic or endoscopic surgery, which is performed through three small incisions at the sides in place of one big incision in the centre of the chest, allows faster healing.

Rehabilitation services- Rehabilitation services include diet counseling, relaxation techniques, stress management training and care after surgery.

Pediatric Heart Care – Standard surgical operations as well as minimally invasive procedures are performed for congenital heart disease. This hospital also conducts fetal echocardiography which allows visualization of the baby’s heart before birth.

Air Ambulance – This hospital uses a fully equipped helicopter for rapid transport of the patient to the hospital.

· Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore

Narayana Hrudayalaya is an institute where the rich and the poor are treated at par. The poor can avail of the services at a subsidized rate or even free of cost. This is the dream of Dr. Devi Shetty who heads this ‘hospital with a heart’.

Services offered:

The hospital offers a wide range of services covering all aspects of cardiac care like interventional cardiology, pediatric cardiology, surgeries for coronary artery bypass, correction of congenital anomalies of the heart, etc.

The institute also conducts community outreach camps every weekend, where doctors travel to rural areas to provide diagnosis and treatment of cardiac conditions.

The Thombosis Research Institute, a part of Narayana Hrudayalaya is working towards developing a vaccine to prevent early atherosclerosis, which is a precursor to coronary heart disease.

· Manipal Heart Foundation, Bangalore

The Manipal Heart Foundation is a part of the Manipal Hospital in Bangalore. It is one of Asia’s biggest cardiac care centres with a 90 bedded cardiac care unit. It claims a 98% success rate after cardiac surgery with extremely low infection rates.

Services offered:

In addition to diagnosing and treating all kinds of cardiologic and cardiac surgical conditions, the institute also deals with the preventive aspect of heart disease.

This institute also runs an emergency helpline known as the Rotary Lifesaving Brigade which helps to transport heart attack patients to the hospital as fast as possible.

A pacemaker bank has been established at the Manipal Heart Foundation which provides cardiac pacemakers at subsidized rates to needy patients.

· Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, Bangalore

The Jayadeva Institute of Cardiology, an exclusive cardiac care hospital, is one of the largest in Asia with 530 beds. It is a teaching institute offering super speciality courses in cardiology and cardiac surgery.

Services offered:

This government aided semi autonomous institute caters to the cardiac care needs of the masses, providing all cardiology and cardiothoracic surgery services at low rates.

The institute organizes mobile camps in rural areas where there a lack of medical facilities.

· B. M. Birla Heart Research Centre, Kolkata

This is the first hospital in India to get NABH accreditation. This is a certificate issued by the National Board of Accreditation for Hospitals to those healthcare institutes which maintain the desired quality standards in hospital services.

Services offered:

This hospital offers diagnosis and treatment of the entire spectrum of cardiac diseases in adults as well as children.

Treatment at this institute is less expensive than at comparable hospitals in Mumbai and Delhi.

This institute has pioneered several reconstructive surgeries in neonates like repair of a hole in the heart through keyhole surgery and reconstruction of heart valves using a technique known as the ‘Birla Heart Technique’.

· N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology, Pune

Founded in 1966 as a charitable trust, the N. M. Wadia Institute of Cardiology was the first private hospital in India to establish a Coronary Care Unit.

Services offered:

Today, it routinely performs angioplasties, cardiac catheterization and complicated cardiac surgeries.

It has the latest cardiac catheterization flat panel equipment, the first of its kind in Asia.

This institute provides free outpatient services and subsidized inpatient facilities to underprivileged patients. The social service department also provides financial aid and moral support to such patients.

· Apollo Cardiac Centre, New Delhi

The Apollo Cardiac Centre is a part of the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital in New Delhi.

Services offered:

The hospital has got sophisticated equipment and well trained staff to handle all aspects of cardiac care.

The services provided cover everything from a basic ECG to the most complicated cardiac surgeries. The hospital reports a 98.5% success rate after cardiac surgery.

It is one of the preferred destinations for medical tourism.

· Wockhardt Hospital and Heart Institute, Bangalore

Wockhardt Heart Institute is a super speciality cardiac wing of the Wockhardt Hospitals group. It is the first to perform ‘Awake heart bypass surgery with valve replacement’ in a patient without giving general anaesthesia and ventilatory support.

Services offered:

Apart from providing standard cardiac care facilities, it is among the few hospitals in Asia which offer treatment of cardiac arrythmias by radiofrequency ablation.

It also uses ‘intravascular ultrasound’ which provides an image of the interior of the blood vessel to facilitate angioplasty and stenting procedures.

· Bombay Heart Brigade, Mumbai

The Bombay Heart Brigade is an initiative of the Rotary Club of Bombay. It is a telephone helpline which provides free emergency assistance to any patient who is having a heart attack. On dialing 105, the patient is connected to a cardiologist. A fully equipped ambulance with a team of doctors is sent to the patient’s address. They provide emergency medical care to stabilize the patient and, if admission to a hospital is required, they shift the patient to whichever hospital he chooses.

I do hope you have found this article useful.

Finally, eat healthy, beat stress and exercise everyday. This is the only effective ‘mantra’ to a healthy heart.

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