SERDANG: The Serdang Hospital Cardiology Centre, which will open on Dec 12, is expected to speed up treatments and shorten waiting periods for angiograms, said caretaker health minister Khairy Jamaluddin.
He said the operation of the cardiology centre would shorten the waiting period from 18 months to just nine months for stable elective cases.
The healthcare facility costing RM546 million is equipped with a hybrid operating theatre, the first of its kind for facilities under the health ministry, and will benefit up to 250 cardiac patients per year.
“The Serdang Hospital will become the national tertiary cardiac referral centre for the central region. It will handle complex heart cases nationwide, with over 40,000 outpatients and 12,000 invasive treatments, including angiogram and coronary angioplasty per year. With this new building, the Serdang Hospital cardiology service will be able to receive twice the number of patients,” he said in his speech at the handover of the facility today.
Khairy said apart from having 262 beds, the centre was also equipped with one unit of the MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) 3.0 Tesla machine specifically for heart diagnostic imaging that could provide images that were four times clearer than a normal MRI.
Khairy said an invasive cardiac laboratory (ICL) at the emergency department was on par with those in developed countries and would enable acute heart attack cases to receive the best treatment.
He said the opening of the cardiology centre would also increase the number of heart procedures from 35,000 to 60,000 a year, making it the biggest invasive cardiac facility in Southeast Asia.
He said the cardiology centre would not only be able to treat more heart patients from all over the country, but also become a training facility for many cardiologists. - FMT
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