December 23rd 2017

With the technical support from Shahid Gangal National Heart Center and in association with Nepal Red Cross Society, the Jayanti Memorial Trust jointly conducted free heart camp in Bhurung Tatopani of Annapurna Rural Municipality in Myagdi district on 24^th December, Saturday led by Prof. Dr. Rabi Malla.Tatopani is a village development committee in Myagdi District in the Dhaulagiri Zone of western-central Nepal and Bhurung is a beautiful picturesque village in Tatopani. By road, it is 302km far from the capital and the team travelled seven hours off-road trip to reach the Bhurung Village.

The comprehensive camp team included cardiologist, resident doctors, nurses and administrative staff. Every individual was provided with prior orientation for his/her responsibilities in a camp.The free heart camp resulted in benefiting the people from in and around Annapurna and Raghu Ganga Rural Municipalities and Beni Municipality.

The camp team was departure from Kathmandu on 23^rd December 2017. The team a vehicle to reach the camps site. It was about six hours long journey from KTM to Myagdi. The next day camp was start at 8:00 AM.The camp was furnished with the logistics managed by the SGNHC. There were volunteers to register the participants. After the patients’ registration, they were sent for consultation with a doctor. There were volunteers to maintain the queue and facilitate patients for consultation.

The findings of the camps conducted on 24th December 2017 were:

1. A total number of patients screened for any cardiac ailments were 399.
2. 107 patients were suspected of cardiac problem.
3. Among all the patients that went through Echocardiography, 46.32% of patients had cardiac pathology.
4. 28% of the patients that underwent Echocardiography test, were suspected with LVDD/ Concentric LVH, 15.26% of the patients were suspected with RHD/VHD and other with 1-2% of patients were suspected with Dilated chambers and Congenital Heart Disease.
5. 11 patients were referred for their tertiary treatment in Kathmandu.

Analysis of Echocardiography findings:

Diagnostic tests done: 

1. 157 patients underwent ECG test
2. 231 patients underwent ECHO test

Medicines provided: 

1. 250+ patients were provided medicines for free of cost.
2. There were two types of drugs – cardiac and non-cardiac medicines.

Summary: 

Overall, we consider the camp was a success. We could reach out to the needy and indigent heart patients who required the cardiac care. The camp information was disseminated from the local FM. Thus, many cardiac patients were pre-informed about the free heart camp and thus were benefited by the cardiac services provided by the prominent team of SGNHC. 

Acknowledgement: 

On this note, we would like to sincerely extend our gratitude to Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center, Nepal Red Cross Society and Lomus Pharmaceuticals for the support. The camp would not have been a success without a combined effort of technical support from SGNHC and Nepal Red Cross Society. Hundreds of patients were benefited from  the medicines distributed for free of cost by the Quest Pharmaceuticals. Also, a heartfelt thanks to Sankalpa Nepal who distributed fruits to the patients during the camp.