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Published February 18, 2021, 10:29 AM
Strict measures are in place at De Los Santos Medical Centre (DLSMC), so patients can set aside their fears. It’s very safe, even for those undergoing procedures.
Celebrating its third anniversary this month, DLSMC is proud of providing a safe environment for all types of patients, especially for those undergoing cardiac operations for both adult and children.
Interventional cardiologist Dr. Danilo S. Santos, unit head of DLSMC CathLab, says “We clean and sterilise the whole CathLab after every procedure which takes two hours. We don’t overlap our cases. We are also proud to say that no CathLab staff has ever been diagnosed with Covid-19 due to our strict social distancing and adherence to policies set by the Infection Control Committee. We have a clear definitive, and standardized protocol that is available to every health care provider.”
A pensioner who had a life-saving mini defibrillator which can shock his heart into a normal beating rhythm - in what is believed to be the first procedure of its kind in a public hospital in Munster - has urged people not to avoid hospital appointments or planned surgeries over fears about COVID-19.
Joseph O’Neill, 74, from Moyasta, County Clare, received a subcutaneous ICD, cardioverter-defibrillator, at the Cath lab, University Hospital Limerick, last October.
Mr O’Neill suffered a mild heart attack in 2010 and it was recommended by doctors that he receive a different type of ICD device “the kind where the wires travel along the veins and up to the heart” which is traditionally used in heart attack patients.