KARACHI, Aug 24: As many as 3,322 angiographies were performed and 455 patients were given angioplasty interventions at the Karachi Institute of Heart Diseases (KIHD) over its first year of full and regular operation.

The institute, the second largest government sector heart diseases hospital in the city, was made functional in June 2005 but only with OPD services.

According to a spokesman for the hospital management, extraordinary efforts were made in the year 2006-2007 to ensure best facilities for patients and now the hospital was providing 24-hours emergency services.

It has 20 beds in the emergency section and as many in coronary care unit with the facilities offered being ECH, echocardiography, angiography and angioplasty.