Lucknow: Soon, heart patients and their caregivers across the country will soon get answers to all their queries in their own language in just one click, as the Cardiological Society of India(CSI) will launch a digital platform that will guide the community on various heart conditions.
The platform, which is likely to be available for the public by August end, will have descriptions of heart problems, their preventions, and do’s and don’ts. This announcement was made by Dr Vijay Bang, at the organisation’s 4th national conference on Heart Failure at SGPGIMS on Sunday.
He added, “Research says that about 64 per cent of patients check the internet for health information when they have acute symptoms of any health condition. Also, about 50 per cent seek information on the net after the first symptom. After that they go to the doctor, and the rest themselves take the medicine or take drugs on the advice of the pharmacists.”
This highlights the need for a digital platform (website and app) to educate people about health issues. However, since CSI deals with heart diseases which is the number one killer in the world today, we are developing a digital platform for the same.
He said that too often people go to the Internet and try to apply half-baked information, solutions for their heart conditions that end up doing more harm than good.For example, many heart attack patients or their relatives ignore heart attack to gas and delay the treatment, which sometimes proves fatal.
