KARACHI: The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) has recently started free-of-cost heart bypass surgery at its Larkana centre.

Larkana is the first district in the interior of Sindh to have a satellite NICVD centre where facilities of angioplasty and angiography as well as cardiac out-patient-department (OPD) are available.

Dr Ali Raza Mangi along with anesthesiologist Assistant Professor Kamal Kumar performed the first surgery.

Congratulating the team, executive director NICVD Prof Nadeem Qamar said it’s a historic day. “Earlier, people had to travel to Karachi for cardiac OPDs and other smaller issues related to heart but now we have established satellite centres in nine cities of Sindh, which are providing state-of-the-art cardiac treatment to patients at their doorstep, totally free of cost.”

Published in Dawn, October 28th, 2021