Taking pride in Telangana being the host of an international conference of cardiologists, Assembly Speaker Gaddam Prasad Kumar urged doctors to focus on research in remote areas. "We must be prepared for crises like Covid-19 in the future. Additionally, prioritise rural and remote areas with a lack of medical facilities.
I assure you of the Telangana government's full support for your research efforts to eliminate deaths from heart attacks in our country and worldwide," Prasad said. He was addressing the 10th Indo-Japanese Chronic Total Occlusion Club (IJCTO) summit in Madhapur. The Speaker motivated doctors to find easy solutions to problems and conduct workshops to train young cardiologists to face future challenges.
The conference, hosting about 1,000 cardiologists from India and Japan, the US, Europe and other countries, aims to transfer the knowledge of the Japanese sutureless technique that has about a 90 per cent positive result in clearing chronic total occlusion in coronary artery diseases (CAD). The founder of IJCTO, Dr Prakasa Rao, along with other course directors from India and Japan, has been performing surgeries in India with this technique for the past ten years. Explaining the procedure, Dr Rao said that nearly 27 per cent of deaths in India are caused by CADs.
"This may be due to unhealthy eating and sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes increases the risk of cardiovascular diseases fourfold. Over time, CAD worsens and arteries become blocked and hardened, resulting.
