National Heart Institute, established in 1981, is a land mark in the health care delivery in India. It was the first heart institute to be launched in India and the first private sector cardiac catheterisation laboratory to be established in the 'Southern Hemisphere'.
Surgical services include all kinds of closed and open Heart Surgeries like Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery, off pump bypass surgery (beating heart surgery), valve repair & replacement surgeries, aortic / carotid surgeries, congenital heart surgeries including blue babies and minimally invasive (Key hole) surgeries. It has modern Cath lab facilities where procedures like Angiographies, Angioplasties, Stenting of the Coronary arteries, valvotomies correction of birth heart defects and closure of holes of the heart, Electrophysiological studies, Radio Frequency ablation, Rotablation, Intra-vascular ultrasound, pacemaker and internal defibrillator implantation are carried out.
Apart from indoor treatment, the Institute also provides comprehensive medical check-up, i.e. Executive health check-ups, at nominal rates with a view to ensuring good physical conditioning and health of all individuals. Cardiac patients with other ailments are also admitted to this hospital, as specialists for diseases other than heart are available round the clock for consultation and treatment.
National Heart Institute is recognized by National Boards for post doctoral training and runs an active teaching and training programme in the specialities of Cardiology & Cardiovascular & Thoracic Surgery. It also carries out research in all facets of Cardiology & Cardiac Surgery.
National Heart Institute is recognised as a Collaborative Centre of WHO in Preventive Cardiology since 1983. It is an affiliate of the World Hypertension League and Heart Beat International.
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Dr. Bimal Chhajer MBBS, MD is a well-known personality in the world of medical science. He is a pioneer in Non Invasive Cardiology in India. <br/>At the age of 25 years he started working in the Department of Cardiology at Dr. Ram Manohar Lohia Hospital, New Delhi. A particular incident changed his life here and reformed his ideas about the treatment of Cardiac patients. He started advocating Non Invasive or Preventive Cardiology. <br/>He then completed his MD from King George's Medical College, Lucknow where he took up a research study to treat heart patients non-invasively. Post MD he worked at the famous All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) for six years (1989-1995) as a Senior Resident Doctor and as an Assistant Professor. He also got training in Yoga Therapy. His research at the AIIMS showed that not only heart patients could prevent Coronary Heart Disease but can also reverse or cure heart disease. Dr. Chhajer, during this period also got trained by Dr. Dean Ornish, who pioneered the lifestyle treatment in USA and proved Reversal of Heart Disease by his Lifestyle Heart Trial to the medical science.