The Department of cardiology serves as a centre for the provision of preventive and curative services. The plan of activities is as given below:

Immediate plans of the department:

• To promote awareness of heart diseases and sensitise the public on causes and means of prevention.
• To provide accurate and non invasive diagnosis of the majority of cardiac diseases, using Echocardiography, TEE, ECG, Stress ECG and Haltor monitoring.
• To provide adequate medical treatment to all patients in need including necessary and essential drugs and other forms of therapy like Cardiac pacing and Programming.
• To provide corrective and palliative cardiac surgery e.g B-T shunting, PDA ligation, Pericardiotomy, Pericardiectomy and valve commisurotomy.

• Expand to limited invasive cardiology through Cardiac catheterization and angiography for simple procedures.
  
• Expand Surgical services to include banding, venous shunts and simple open heart operations including closure of septal defects with on job training by visiting Cardiac surgical teams.

• Complete diagnostic unit with Non invasive, Invasive and Electrophysiology departments.
• Self sustaining cardiac surgical unit able to carry out Open heart surgery.
• Active research and training.

Ongoing Activities:
Currently the Cardiology Department offers diagnostic, curative and surgical services.
Available diagnostic services include:-

• ECG
• Echocardiography
• TEE (Trans-eosophageal Echo)
• Stress ECG
• Haltor monitoring.
• Pacemaker programming
• Pacemaker Lead analysis

• PDA ligation,
• Mitral valve commissurotomy
• Coarctation of the aorta repair
• Pericardiectomy.
• Pericardiocentesis
• Pericardiotomy
• Pacemaker implantation (transvenous and Epicardial)
• BT shunts etc.