Global Hospitals makes 'cardiac' foray

New Heart Beat

 A team of doctors led by Shailender Singh, an interventional cardiologist, and AGK Gokhale, cardio-thoracic surgeon, have joined the Global Hospital from Mediciti Hospitals to offer the full-fledged services in the new division.

 Global Hospitals is investing Rs 7-8 crore to install the state-of-the-art cardiac equipment to provide services to the cardiac patients, K Ravindranath, the managing director, told a press conference.

 Funded by the union government's Technology Development Board (TDB), Global Hospitals has so far invested about Rs 30 crore in operation theatres, intensive care units, transfusion facilities and other infrastructure to carry out liver, kidney and bone marrow transplantation.