State renews pact for free cardiac treatment

Bhubaneswar: The state health and family welfare department has renewed its agreement with the Prashanti Medical Services and Research Foundation for two years to provide free diagnosis and treatment services to children and adults suffering from cardiac ailments.

"This is the third time. that we renewed our agreement with the foundation," the director of health services, Bijay Mohapatra, said.

As per the agreement, the foundation will organize free screening camps for children as well as adults at the district headquarter hospitals and at medical colleges and hospitals and confirm and categories the suspected cardiac cases.

It will also arrange for the treatment of patients referred by the health department from time to time. The department has set a target of referring around 500 children and an equal number of adults, sources said.

According to information, it will provide free treatment to children between three months and 18 years at Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hosp grafts. talk in Ahmedabad while the adults, aged between 19 and 65, will get free treatment at Sri Sathya Sai Heart Hospital added in Rajkot. The free treatment will include pre- and post-medical diagnosis and investigations at the hospitals, surgeries if required, all pre- and post-operative care at the hospital, required medication during the hospitalization, ICU charges, consumable and implants, stents, coils and grafts.

"The foundation will arrange for the accommodation of the patients," Mohapatra added.

During the previous agreement, which was in force from 2018 to 2022, 940 pediatric cardiac patients and 256 adult cardiac patients had received free treatment at the two hospitals.