Over 700 patients screened for heart ailments
As many as 730 patients were screened for heart ailments at the free medical and heart check-up camp held at Dargah-e-Makki Miya, Masjid-e-Masoodiya in Mahmood Nagar of Kishan Bagh area on Sunday.
The free medical and hearth check-up camp was organised by Healthier Hearts Foundation (Hyderabad Chapter). Speaking after inaugurating the heart check-up camp, HHF chairman Dr Mohammed Fareed said there has been a spurt in the incidences of heart attack and other related ailments. The changing lifestyles and food habits too have contributed in making the middle and poor class more prone to the heart diseases. However, not many poor people afford to go for heart check-up. Most of the time, they ignore the symptoms like chest pain, dizziness, etc., Consequently, they end up complicating the disease which could have been prevented at the early stage itself.
Dr Fareed said that poverty prevents many patients from visiting a cardiologists or go for essential tests. With a view to help the poor fight the heart diseases the Healthier Hearts Foundation launched a series of free medical and heart check-up camps at various places in the city.
MIM General Secretary and Charminar MLA Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Prof Dr Mohammed Siddiq Mahmood Quadri of Dargah Committee and eminent social worker Syed Nizamuddin, who inaugurated the camp, praised the Healthier Heart Foundation for its initiative. Ahmed Pasha Quadri advised the Foundation to organise similar camps in many other areas of the city which are dominated by poor people. Prof Mahmood Quadri said that the Dargah Committee would continue its support to the Foundation in its future endeavors aimed at benefitting the poor patients.
Prominent cardiologists conducted free heart check-up for 730 poor patients at the camp. ECG, 2D Echo, Blood, Sugar, BP and other tests were conducted at free of costs for nearly 500 patients and 20 of them, have been referred for higher centre for cardiac evaluation. Essential medicines were also distributed among the poor patients at free of cost.
News Posted: 26 April, 2015
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