Trichy: Cardiac patients will be able to access Enhanced External Counterpulsation (EECP) treatment at the Mahatma Gandhi Memorial (MGM) government hospital in Trichy, India starting 4 November 2017.
EECP is a non invasive treatment for patients with refractory angina, cardiac failure, angina after bypass surgery or PCI, patients unwilling or unfit for surgery and patient with multiple vessel disease with incomplete revascularizations.
The program has been sanctioned under a special scheme to join the club of 11 other government hospitals which have already been equipped with EECP facility in the state.