KARACHI: A pacemaker clinic was opened at the Dow University of Health Sciences (DUHS) on Tuesday.
The clinic is the second facility for pacemaker implants in the public sector in the city after the National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD), which offers free-of-cost pacemaker implants.
“The field of cardiac electrophysiology, the science of diagnosing and treating heart’s electrical activities, has become advanced in this day and age and we felt that the cardiac institute at DUHS should have a dedicated facility for patients reporting with irregular heartbeat that could be life threatening,” said Dr Tariq Farman, the chairman of the Dow Institute of Cardiology (DIC), while speaking at a ceremony held at the Dow International Medical College.