Hail .. The cardiac patients ’crisis ended with“ 13 ”catheterization The cardiac center’s doctors in Hail launched cardiac catheterization operations. Yesterday, the Ministry of Health ended the suffering of heart attack patients in Hail from referrals to specialized hospitals in Riyadh and Qassim, by conducting 13 arterial catheterization operations and their success .. It was the first work of the Heart Center The newly launched.
The Health Affairs in Hail Region had prepared a program for media correspondents, which included direct exposure to patients'' catheterization operations, and a press conference during which the General Director of Health Affairs in Hail Region, Dr. Nawaf bin Abdulaziz Al-Harthi announced the date of the first heart surgery in the region on 01/12/2013 . He said that the second phase of the operation program of the heart center in the region has been started, which will lead to stopping referring heart patients outside the Hail region, indicating that the second phase will be within the agreement and twinning program with the King Fahd Heart Center at King Saud University.
For his part, Professor Ahmed Al-Harsi confirmed that the twinning program between the King Fahd Heart Center and the Hail Center included supervision and training, indicating that the catheterization device at the Heart Center in Hail is one of the best modern devices available in the world. After that, Professor Mohamed Arafa revealed that 18 cases were dealt with in two days, which is unusual in the new heart centers, indicating that the team working at the center was trained in Riyadh and did its work to the fullest.
Mane bin Hammoud Al-Shafaqa, Director of the Heart Center in Hail, said that during the past six months, 381 cases were treated with cardiac care and 385 in the internal department .. All of them received full treatment and left unharmed, except for 85 cases transferred to other hospitals, and 5800 were treated. Outpatient cases, meaning that the total number of cases is 67,560 cases during the six months of operation. He said that the death rate constitutes 1.9% of all heart cases only, indicating that the Hail Heart Center has advanced equipment and is the only one in the Middle East.
