700 patients screened for heart ailments

As many as 730 patients were screened for heart ailments at the free medical and heart check-up camp held at Dargah-e-Makki Miya in Kishan Bagh on Sunday.Speaking at the camp organised by Healthier Hearts Foundation (Hyderabad Chapter), HHF chairman Dr Mohammed Fareed said, “There has been a spurt in the incidences of heart attack and related ailments.

Changing lifestyles and food habits have contributed in making the middle and poor class more prone to heart diseases. However, not many poor people afford to go for heart check-up. Most of the time, people ignore symptoms like chest pain and dizziness. Consequently, they end up complicating the disease which could have been prevented at an early stage.”

Dr Fareed further added that poverty prevents many patients from visiting a cardiologists and undergoing essential tests. “To facilitate the needy to fight heart diseases, we have organised the series of free medical and heart check-up camps at various places in the city,” Dr Fareed informed.

All India Majilis-e-Ittedahul Muslimeen (AIMIM) general secretary and Charminar MLA Syed Ahmed Pasha Quadri, Prof. Dr Mohammed Siddiq Mahmood Quadri of Dargah Committee and eminent social worker Syed Nizamuddin, who inaugurated the camp, praised the foundation for its initiative.

Ahmed Pasha Quadri advised the foundation to organise similar camps in other areas in the city dominated by poor people. Prof. Mahmood Quadri said that the Dargah Committee would continue its support to the foundation in its future endeavors aimed at benefitting the needy.

ECG, 2D echo, blood, sugar, BP and other tests were conducted free of cost for nearly 500 patients and 20 of them have been referred for higher centre for cardiac evaluation. Essential medicines were also distributed among the poor patients.