‘-gearing to offer advance services to allDelivering crucial cardiac care without discriminating against the financially-disabled is on the cards for the Caribbean Heart Institute (CHI). This noble endeavour is one that is currently in the discussion phase.Caribbean Heart InstituteCHI operates in partnership with the Ministry of Public Health to offer a subsidized service to patients with varying cardiac concerns that could cost as little as a few thousands of dollars to millions.But according to Consultant Cardiologist, Dr. Mahendra Carpen, “We are very close to providing advanced cardiac services to patients regardless of their financial status or ethnicity.”His remarks were forthcoming yesterday even as the final preparations were being made for CHI to formally introduce a state of the art Catherisation Laboratory today.The facility is one that is expected to allow CHI to offer not only advanced but a considerably wider range of services to the public. “We will be able to handle more technical procedures,” said Dr. Carpen.He made it clear that the CHI facility is in fact “the most advanced Cardiac Cath in the English-speaking Caribbean.”The Cath Lab,Cheap NFL Jerseys Wholesale, according to him,Nike NFL Jerseys China, is capable of doing multiple cardiac related procedures, cardiac electrophysiology (elucidating, diagnosing and treating the electrical activities of the heart) and coronary as well as cerebral work.Dr. Carpen likened the addition of the Cath Lab to “a breath of fresh air” even as he recalled that it was very long in coming. “You simply can’t imagine how it feels to see this come to fruition,” said Dr. Carpen yesterday.The introduction of the laboratory was an initiative that was conceptualised and initiated by founder and Chief Executive Officer of CHI,NFL Jerseys China, Dr. Gary Stephens, a Lindener who migrated to the United States many years ago. Dr. Stephens was able to pursue studies in the field of cardiology and has been able to make a name for himself in this regard.Dr. Stephens has also held,NFL Jerseys From China, for many years, a reputable place at the Maimonides Medical Centre in Brooklyn, New York.This publication understands that it was around 2011 that the management of CHI consulted with Government about acquiring a new Cardiac Cath Lab in light of the fact that the facility was operating on a public/private basis. This was required since the existing Cath Lab was nearing the end of its useful life.Dr. Carpen recalled, yesterday, that the initiative to acquire the Cath Lab was already in motion when he joined the team at CHI in 2012.But putting measures in place for the introduction of the state of the art lab was considerably hampered with some officials, even within the public health sector, denying support to the initiative.This publication had learnt that while the GPHC had designated a place for the lab and construction was slated to be completed within months,China Adidas Hockey Jerseys, the process was still ongoing one year after the start of the project.This had caused some concerns about the General Electric (GE-) sourced equipment for the lab which was left stored on the bottom flat of the GPHC covered by a tarpaulin for months.But works on the lab were fast-tracked soon after the coalesced A Partnership for National Unity + Alliance for Change Government took office in May of 2015.“It really took a while and a lot of planning to eventually have this lab in place,” Dr. Carpen considered yesterday.Since the completion of the laboratory, Technical persons from GE have been offering familiarisation sessions with CHI personnel. This is, in fact,Cheap NFL Jerseys, a clause of an agreement with GE, as the supplier of the Cath Lab.The sessions with GE technical persons commenced last week. With this support, several angiograms, stents and pacemakers were completed.However, Dr. Carpen disclosed that this week for the first time “we were able to operate independently of external parties.”