Services Offered

Basic Overview

The National Heart Institute is a centrally air-conditioned and well equipped modern hospital set up by the All India Heart Foundation for treatment of heart patients and to support research. This was inaugurated in 1981 by the late Prime Minister Mrs. Indira Gandhi.

The Institute is a non-profit making body. 40% of out-patients are treated free of charge and 10% of indoor beds are earmarked for poor patients earning less than Rs. 500/- a month. It has facilities for intensive cardiac care, sophisticated investigations and all types of heart surgery, open and closed. It has the latest devices for Cardiac catheterization – Echo, Holter, stress testing, Electrophysiological studies, Angioplasty, Valvuloplasty etc. The services of the hospital are managed by highly qualified consultants, resident cardiologists and cardiac surgeons with post-doctoral degrees and training in India and abroad, nurses, and paramedical personnel all working under the overall supervision of the President of the Foundation.

Out-patient department
The outpatient department of the Institute offers routine check-up for cardiac cases and also an Executive Medical Check-up service, Biochemical and pathological laboratory investigations, X-Ray, ECG and Treadmill exercise test, Echocardiography, Dynamic Electrocardiography, Ambulatory monitoring, Stress Testing and Pulmonary (lung) function testing are all available.

Executive Check-up
The idea of the executive check-up is to detect signs of disease early, to identify risk factors for heart attack and timely prevention of heart attacks, strokes and cancer. The NHI has initiated a comprehensive executive check-up service comprising physical examination, X-ray of chest, ECG, Pulmonary Function Test, essential blood test, exercise test, eye and ear check-up and PAP smear for women in the shortest possible time. The Check-up reports are ordinarily handed over within 48 hours.

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