Narayana Health (Narayana Hrudayalaya) has now set up of its third Heart Centre in Bangalore at St. Martha’s Hospital. These centres managed by Narayana Health, provide expertise to hospitals which require specialist interventions in cardiology. The Heart Centre is part of Narayana Health’s larger initiative of making quality healthcare accessible to all.

“Every year, 25 lakh people in India are in need of cardiac surgeries. Unfortunately, less than one lakh undergo surgery every year. Looking at this, we are working towards getting quality healthcare more accessible to the people through several healthcare models. One such model is the ‘Heart Centre’, where we would be offering Narayana Health’s expertise to other multi-speciality hospitals in the field of cardiology. Now we are associated with St. Martha’s to manage the Heart Centre and through this initiative, we will be able to reach out to many more in need, said Dr Devi Shetty, chairman, Narayana Health.

“Our 127-year-old hospital has been providing quality healthcare at affordable costs over to the people of Bangalore, especially for the poor and the marginalized. The  hospital has been upgraded on a regular basis for the benefit of patients and the establishment of St. Martha’s Heart Centre is one more step in this direction in a joint venture with Narayana Health,” said Sr. Prameela, sister superior and president, St. Martha’s Hospital Society.

The Cardiac centres are equipped to offer services for outpatients and inpatients. Services such as paediatric cardiology, ECG, TMT/stress test, Dobutamine stress test, echo cardiography, holter monitoring and health checkup packages are being offered for outpatients. Intensive care services such as Coronary Care Unit, Cath lab, cardiac cathererization, coronary angiography, coronary angioplasty, electrophysiology study, radio frequency ablation, pacemaker implantation, device closures are being offered for inpatients.

Dr Bernard Moras, Archbishop of Bangalore inaugurated the St. Martha’s Heart Centre.

Narayana Health is currently managing heart centres in MS Ramaiah and Chinmaya Mission Hospital in Bangalore and three more in rest of Karnataka at Davengere, Kolar and Dharwad. Narayana Heart Centres are also coming up in Kuppam, Bijapur, Tumkur and Chitradurga.