Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 11: Keeping in view the benefits of golden hour of heart attack in preventing mortality and morbidity, and need to educate the masses about same, Head Department of Cardiology GMCH Jammu Dr Sushil Sharma held a day long cardiac awareness cum health check up camp at Udas Marg Sanstha Satsang Ashram , R S Pura Jammu where people were educated about the importance of shifting patient with heart attack to nearby hospital for definitive therapy as soon as possible so that benefits of golden hour is delivered in timely and appropriate manner. More than 300 people were screened, evaluated, diagnosed and free medicines were given as per the requirements.
While interacting with the people, Dr Sushil stated that any individual, who may have a heart attack, receiving immediate medical attention is extremely critical. In the case of an attack, the short-term, as well as the long-term consequences, will depend on the extent of the damaged or dead heart muscles. “With the help of fast medical treatment, doctors can quickly open the blocked artery and can save most of the heart muscle. The golden hour provides a window of opportunity to the patients, their families, and doctors to take appropriate and fast actions to save their lives. The reason is heart muscles start to die within 80-90 minutes after it stops receiving blood, and within 6 hours, nearly all the affected areas of the heart could be completely damaged. It means, the faster normal blood circulation is restored, the lesser the damage will be,” he said.
Others who were part of this camp include Dr Harish Kumar. Paramedics and volunteers include Raghav Rajput, Rajkumar, Rajinder Singh , Mukesh Kumar, Jatin Bhasin, Jamshed Ali, Vikas Kumar, Maneet Kumar, Rajneesh Kumar, Faisal Rashid, Moosa Mushtaq, Vinay Kumar, Sahil Mottan and Paramveer Singh.
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