Health Minister Ma. Subramanian on Tuesday launched a scheme to provide life-saving emergency “loading dose”, through over 10,000 primary level health facilities, to persons who experience symptoms of myocardial infarction or heart attack.
Under the scheme, launched at Malumichampatti village in Coimbatore district, the government will make life-saving cardiac drugs available at 8,713 health sub-centres (HSCs) and 2,200 primary health centres (PHCs) and urban primary health centres (UPHCs) across Tamil Nadu at a cost of ₹3.37 crore, the Minister said.
“People who experience symptoms of cardiac arrest can be taken to the HSCs in villages where nurses will provide these life-saving emergency doses as first aid after consulting experienced doctors through facilities such as the eSanjeevani app,” Mr. Subramanian said at the Coimbatore Medical College Hospital, where he inaugurated a training programme for health workers earlier in the day.
