1,500 docs to be trained on heart diseases

Medtronic Foundation, a US-based organization, and National Heart Foundation of Bangladesh would train nearly 1,500 doctors across the country in two years.
Both the organisations started the training programme Saturday at the National Heart Foundation Hospital and Research Institute where 200 doctors from different hospitals took part is the programe.
The doctors will be trained on "Acute Myocardial Infarction" disease which would help them to provide preliminary treatment to the heart disease-infected patients even in the rural areas.
State Minister for Women and Children Affairs Meher Afroz Chumki inaugurated the training programme for the doctors at the National Heart Foundation Hospital with National Professor Brig (Retd) Abdul Malik in the chair.
The organiser will also go to some divisional and district towns for training the doctors at Upazila level.
Experts said, lack of knowledge of physicians and patients in the Upazila and village level affected the treatment of heart diseases in Bangladesh. In recent days, a large numbers young people are being affected by the heart-related diseases.
Chumki urged the doctors to provide extended treatment to the women and heart disease-affected children who borne with the chronic disease.