With an outpatient footfall of nearly 600 patients each day, the Department of Cardiology at the Tamil Nadu Government Multi Super Speciality Hospital (TNGMSSH), Omandurar Government Estate is among the State’s busiest cardiac care centres in the government sector.
In 10 years, the department has performed a total of 31,157 interventional procedures at its cardiac cath lab. This included coronary angiogram, coronary angioplasty, percutaneous transcatheter mitral valve commissurotomy, atrial septal defect (ASD) device closure, ventricular septal defect device closure, electrophysiological studies with arrhythmia ablation, permanent pacemaker implantation, balloon aortic valvotomy, balloon pulmonary valvotomy, RSOV (ruptured sinus of valsalva) aneurysm device closure, transcatheter aortic valve replacement and implantable cardioverter defibrillator implantation and cardiac resynchronisation therapy with defibrillator.
“We get patients from various parts of the State and neighbouring places such as Puducherry. Many of them are referred to our centre. There are two large wards for men and women. We have around 100 beds, and the unit consistently runs at full capacity. There are seven intensive care units with 60 beds,” J. Cecily Mary Majella, professor and head, Department of Cardiology, and senior interventional cardiologist, TNGMSSH, said.
