Asian Heart Proudly showcases its 100-member Fit2Run Hearts
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He has performed over 17000 operations, including 1000 redo operations & over 2500 complex high risk operations. He has pioneered many techniques including total arterial grafting, operating on severely impaired heart & redo operations. He is considered one of the safest heart surgeon in the world with an operative mortality of less than 0.5% for last 9 years. He did a complex redo bypass surgery on Prime minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.
Asian Heart Institute, medical partner to The Standard Chartered
Mumbai Marathon for the eleventh consecutive year showcased its 100 member
Fit2Run Hearts – a community of individuals who’ve benefitted immensely from
Asian Hearts’ Preventive Cardiology & Cardiac Rehab, after being
treated for various heart ailments, here in Mumbai today, at BandraKurla
Complex.
Individually called Heart Ambassadors, the Fit2Run team
comprises recovered cardiac patients, who are running the
marathon-after angioplasty, bypass with multiple grafts or even pure
medical management via cardiac rehabilitation. From age 25 to 85, these runners
are an example for the rest of the city and country- as evangelists of
healthy hearts, and will reach out to other cardiac patients across the country
as torchbearers of hope, faith and discipline.
Speaking to his braveheart cardiac patients –turned marathon
runner team, Dr. Ramakanta Panda, Vice Chairman and Managing Director of Asian
Heart Institute proudly shared, “Life does not end at being diagnosed with a
heart disease. Rather, it marks the beginning of a fitter and better life.”
Its interesting to note that probably for the first time in the
history of marathon, the pacers (the expert runners/leaders who set the pace
for the rest of the runners) themselves are past heart patients-.
On a lighter note, Dr.Panda added that his ‘Heart
Ambassadors’ were fitter than him and he was going to stay far away from them.
Renowned journalist and marathoner, Kumar Ketkar humbly
admitted, “I’m proud as well as embarrassed to admit that, not only would I
never go to any gym, but I would mock those who would. I was accidentally
detected with four blockages. It was during a routine check-up that our office
organizes that there were problems in my ECG. I just happened to mention of it
to Dr Panda who I knew. There were no obvious signs of tiredness or exhaustion
as such. But when Dr Panda saw my case, he got me admitted immediately and
within two days I was operated on. My personal message to everyone is: There
are these fears of heart ailments; about running for the marathon, about many
other issues, but those fears are completely baseless. It is essentially a
reflection of a lazy mind and an indifferent approach towards one’s own health.
This marathon and Asian Heart Centre’s cardiac rehab encourages everyone to
lead a happy and positive life.
Dr. Aashish Contractor, the HOD for
Preventive Cardiology & Cardiac Rehab, shared the statistics.
“This is the largest contingency of runners we’ve had so far. A total
of 100! 26 of them are doing the half marathon; 13 running for the first
time, and one full marathoner. Our ‘Heart Ambassadors’ all gung ho about
running the marathon.”
ASIAN HEARTS MARATHON INFRASTRUCTURE
The Asian Heart Institute has been the preferred Medical Partner
for the Mumbai Marathon for the past eleven years in succession. As the Mumbai
Marathon draws closer, a dedicated team at the Asian Heart Institute is gearing
up for the grand event to be held on January 19, 2014.
The whole team at AHI is more than glad to contribute
state-of-the-art facilities and services for the marathoners. This will
include:
• 350+
volunteers from AHI (including 200+ medical staff)
• 8 ambulances
(each with a doctor & a nurse to ply on the entire route)
• 6 ‘mobile
medics’ (doctors on motorbikes for the entire route)
• 10 aid
stations all along the route
• 2 base camps
(of 40 & 20 beds each)
With all this medical infrastructure in place, Asian Heart
Institute can aptly handle any kind of medical emergency -- injuries,
dehydration, or any other complication arising due to long distance running.
ABOUT ASIAN HEART
Asian Heart Institute (AHI) has been set up with an aim to
provide world-class cardiac care in India. Set up in
2002, Internationally accredited with ISO 9001:2000, JCI &
NIAHO, AHI reaffirms its commitment towards world class cardiac care by being
the India's Highest Accredited Hospital.
ABOUT RAMAKANTA PANDA
Dr Ramakanta Panda is
the vice chairman & managing director of Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai.
He has performed over 17000 operations, including 1000 redo operations & over 2500 complex high risk operations. He has pioneered many techniques including total arterial grafting, operating on severely impaired heart & redo operations. He is considered one of the safest heart surgeon in the world with an operative mortality of less than 0.5% for last 9 years. He did a complex redo bypass surgery on Prime minister of India Dr. Manmohan Singh.
He has been awarded the 3rd highest national award,
Padmabhusan. He is also awarded a Doctorate in Science by his alma mater
Utkal University.
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