KARACHI: The provincial health department has clarified that the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) and the Sindh Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (SICVD) “are two separate institutions” being run under two separate mandates.

In response to a news item published in this newspaper on April 6 under the caption “Sindh govt renames NICVD as SICVD”, it said in a press release that “no names of any institutes have been changed from one to another and both are run by their respective governing bodies”.

It said satellite centres (for cardiovascular diseases) and chest pain units of NICVD had been established by the Sindh government and these were handed over to SICVD, an institution established through an act, it added.

Published in Dawn, April 10th, 2022