The Hindu Business Line : Apollo Hospitals unveils national heart plan

APOLLO Hospitals has announced the launch of the `Apollo National Heart Plan' comprising three components of the preventive mode, a disease management programme (DMP) and the actual treatment and surgery component.

Addressing a press conference here, the Managing Director of the Apollo Group, Ms Sangita Reddy, and a team of doctors, with participation by the Group Chairman, Dr Pratap C. Reddy, from Chennai, announced the roll out of this new Apollo National Heart Programme.

The Apollo National Heart Programme comes for Rs 800. It includes a complete blood picture, routine urine examination, blood sugar check, lipid profile, ECG, Echo and Tread Mill Test and consultation with a cardiologist. In the normal course, all these mean an average of Rs 4,150.

Dr Pratap Reddy said the problem of increasing heart complaints was serious and it needed to be addressed properly and in time.

Cardiologist Dr Hariprasad said that in 1980, only between one and four per cent of the population had heart diseases, while in 2000, it went up to 10 per cent. The World Health Organisation had, in a recent report, said that by 2010, 60 per cent of heart patients would be Indians. Anyone going for the programme would end up in any of three categories.

While those in the first category would come under `Healthy Heart' and would be asked to take preventive care, the second would be for those who were increasingly prone to heart ailments. They could go for DMP.

The third would be for those who actually had a heart problem and for whom only surgery was the answer. If anyone falling in the first category, suffered a heart attack even after the programme, he/she would get Rs 2-lakh worth treatment, Dr Hariprasad said.

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