Ludhiana, March 9
Hold your breath for a while. India is going to introduce heart surgeries by robot. It will be a reality within two years, says world famous cardiac surgeon, Dr Naresh Trehan . According to Dr Trehan, during the experiments the robots have shown exceptional accuracy in performing these surgeries. He says that India is going to be the world’s best centre for heart surgeries soon. People from all over the world, including the developed countries like England, Canada, USA, and Africa, will be landing in India for this purpose.
As the cost in India would be as low as one tenth of that in Europe or the USA, so the patients will prefer India. Moreover, India has become best equipped with latest technology for conducting such surgeries and patients from middle east and other countries have already started landing in Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai for heart care.
Dr Trehan, Executive Director and Chief Cardiovascular Surgeon, Escorts Heart Institute And Research Centre, New Delhi, who was in city said in an interview with Ludhiana Tribune that those heart patients who have no hope of treatment or cure right now, the time is not too far when the solution of their problems will also be found. Moreover, heart surgeons will soon be performing surgeries without using their hands as the voice operated robots will do everything for them, Dr Trehan said.
There is a bright ray of hope for the patients suffering from coronary artery diseases (CAD) as the artificial hearts and pacemakers will be available with the cardiovascular surgeons in the next 2 to 3 years, disclosed Dr Trehan. The CAD is the major cause in majority of deaths. Fifty per cent of the CAD patients generally do not have warning symptoms.
While disclosing some amazing factors, Dr Trehan said that in a short span 600 million people(above 40 years of age) out of the total Indian population of over one billion would be suffering from various heart diseases. It was a disturbing fact that there was an international prevalence of CAD. The Indians were prone to CAD more as compared to the USA, Africa and other countries.
The people living in the states of Punjab, Rajasthan and Kerala were at the higher risk of Coronary Artery Diseases due to their rich diet of milk products and less physical activity. About 4to5 lakh people die every year in the country due to CAD. “Urban people were more affected by CAD than the rural people”, added Dr Trehan.
Dr Naresh Trehan informed that in the year 2000, more than 3800 bypass surgeries were performed at Escorts Heart Centre, New Delhi, which is a record in itself.
Cardiac Screening with MRI and hi speed spiral CT were the two unique tests which could identify the CAD at an early stage and reduce its occurrence which is otherwise four times more likely to develop. The other tests like ECG, TMT, ECH can be the good recorders but not the predictors.
