A first of its kind CT scan unit in the city has been installed at the Jehangir Hospital. The 64 slice cardiac CT scan unit has been set up by the Chennaibased Apollo CT scan centre. Inaugurating the unit, entrepreneur Lila Poonawala expressed confidence that the latest technology would help in enhancing the quality of patient's life.
Chairman H.C. Jehangir said that more than the machines, it is the doctors' care and compassion that outlive all the machines as every new technology becomes old and outdated with time.
Head of the newlylaunched unit, radiologist A.K. Bhatia said that Apollo is the only centre in the country where consultantbased services are provided 24 hours since last eight years. Elaborating on the advantage of cardiac CT angiography, he said that the technology is good for preventive purpose before the damage occurs and is done without any catheterisation. It is useful for evaluating status of blood vessels after cardiac surgery and the machine takes only eight seconds for this type of assessment.
He further said the unit is not only useful for doing cardiac angiography, but also angiography of the brain, abdomen and peripheral vessels. It is extremely useful in trauma cases, where diagnosis for the whole body is achieved within 20 seconds.
With this latest machine, the radiation dose to the patient is very less. It is very useful for cancer patients as well. Bhatia said that the facility comes at no extra cost as rates are at par with any centre in city.TNN
