Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, Sept 28: Apollo Hospitals today launched the ‘Healthy Heart’ program, India’s first heart disease prevention and reversal program.
Ahead of World Heart Day, observed on September 29, the program is tailored to help persons prone to heart diseases and patients already suffering from heart ailments to arrest and reverse the progress of the disease.
The ‘Healthy Heart’ program is a fee-based, annual, personalized heart disease reversal program which at enrolment stage classifies patients into high or low risk based on a physical screening encompassing 14 important health parameters.
Once enrolled, the program includes continuing healthy heart doctor consultations, four cardiologist-physician consults per year, diet & lifestyle counselling (yoga, micronutrients and meditation) and continuous monitoring by a ‘Customer Relationship Management’ infrastructure throughout their treatment.
The program will be applicable across 60 centres of Apollo Hospitals in India. Persons enrolling in the program are also eligible for a 15% discount for any other interventions that might be required. People undergoing angioplasty or bypass surgery at Apollo Hospitals will automatically be enrolled into the program free of cost for a year. This is to enhance the outcome of the interventions and prevent recurrence.
Sharing his thoughts on the occasion, Dr Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Hospitals said, “Through this initiative, Apollo Hospitals wants to ensure Indians get the best of counselling and treatment. We want to nurture a Healthy India with a Healthy Heart.”
Sangita Reddy, Joint Managing Director, Apollo Hospitals said, “This program is developed to engage with patients, as well as those prone to heart disease, well in advance to ensure that they receive all-round consultation and thereby prevent/reverse the possibility of a heart attack.”
Dr K Hariprasad, President, Apollo Hospitals Division said, “One of the significant elements of this program is that it makes cardiologists available to all those who enroll at any time for queries related to heart ailments. Once the patient has enrolled in this programe, the Healthy Heart team will offer its complete care and consultation round-the-clock.”
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