US-based medical technology company Medtronic Inc has entered into a strategic partnership with Hyderabad-based Care Hospitals to set up heart failure (HF) clinics for the prevention and management of congestive heart failure (CHF).
The clinics will be set up in a patient-focused environment for the diagnosis, treatment and management of HF. A key focus area would be the education of patients, families, members of the community and healthcare professionals on HF management. The first HF Clinic will be launched at the Care outpatient centre within a few weeks.
“The increasing burden of heart failure is a serious cause for concern all over the world, especially in India. Our PANARrhythMia and Heart Failure Registry (PANARM HF) also showed that the disease onset of HF patients in India begins a decade earlier than in Western patients, underlying the urgency of providing timely and effective treatment,” Medtronic India managing director and South Asia vice president, Milind Shah, stated in a press release here on Wednesday.
Stating that heart disease is a common problem now and HF is one of the key reasons for mortality, Care Hospitals group chairman, B Soma Raju, said this enhanced therapy delivery and management of HF would improve patient outcomes and bring CHF patients closer to the cardiologists.
At the same time, the initiative would generate valuable local evidence to deliver cutting-edge clinical research on HF patients in India.
