Countries first ever Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Programme

Gleneagles Global Hospitals, a Parkway Pantai enterprise, in association with Vaso-Medictech Pvt. Ltd. today launched the country’s first ever ‘Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Programme’ (AHF-TP) which aims to identify the prevalence of Heart-Failure among the general population of India.

The ‘Gleneagles Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program’ (GAHF-TP) was inaugurated by Anand Mohan IPS – IG – Central Industrial Security Force, Ministry of Home Affairs, Govt. of India.

The ‘Gleneagles Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program will look to open 100 ‘Gleneagles Heart Failure Clinics’ across the country where one can visit and seek consultation.

The first phase of the programme will see two clinics functioning in Chennai, three centres in Bangalore, two centres in Hyderabad, one centre in Mumbai, one centre in Pune and one centre each in Ahmadabad, Raipur and Bhubaneswar .

The ‘Gleneagles Advanced Heart Failure Treatment Program will aim to achieve this within the first three months of launching the program.

At the Advanced Heart Failure Treatment centres the patients will undergo procedures like Enhanced External Counter Pulsation (EECP) treatment and optimization of medical therapy, which will be provided for 35 days as an out-patient day care treatment.

During the treatment proper counselling will be provided to patient on life style management and drug adherence. Any patients that may require further mechanical device based treatment or heart transplant will be directed towards the closest Gleneagles Global Hospitals’ facility.

All the centres will be connected centrally through an online data management system and all the patients will also be automatically entered into the National Heart Failure registry.