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Referring to the perceived impressive record of heart attack victims’ survival at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), which is believed to match hospitals in the West, the doctors said there was urgent need to spread the practice of angioplasty for heart attack
victims, possibly with expanded state funding.
“Our study revealed that patients took a median time of 160 minutes to arrive at the hospital, which is an unacceptable delay,” according to Dr Fahim H. Jafary, Associate Professor of Medicine and Consultant Interventional Cardiologist, AKUH.
Survival rates of heart attack victims after angioplasty at an internationally certified local hospital are comparable to hospitals in developed countries. In a two-year follow up study of 277 heart attack patients, researchers at AKUH in Karachi have found the survival rate to be almost identical to outcomes reported in the published medical literature from the West.
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