Karnataka’s ongoing heart attack (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction -STEMI) management project at taluk level — taken up to avoid delay in providing diagnosis and treatment to heart attack patients in rural areas — will now be called the Puneeth Rajkumar Hrudaya Jyothi scheme.
Health Minister Dinesh Gundu Rao told presspersons on Tuesday that the scheme is being implemented on a ‘hub and spoke’ model and through installation of Automated External Defibrillator (AED) devices in public places.
“As many as 85 hospitals at the district and taluk level will function as ‘spoke’ centres and ten ‘hubs’ will be created in 16 super-specialty hospitals, including Sri Jayadeva Institute of Cardiovascular Sciences and Research,” the Minister said.
