Tamil Nadu’s Idhayam Kappom initiative — a preventive heart health scheme rolled out by the State government — has completed six months and covered over 5,000 beneficiaries.
While an assessment of the scheme, which has made available emergency loading doses at the primary healthcare level to prevent deaths due to heart attacks, will be taken up at the end of the first year, cardiologists in the government and private sectors weigh the pros and cons of the initiative that has evoked a mixed response among a section of them.
