A 52-year-old man who had suffered a heart attack was treated swiftly with clot-busting thrombolysis procedure at his doorstep by a team of skilled and efficient paramedics under the 'Mission Delhi' initiative. “Mission DELHI” (Delhi Emergency Life Heart-Attack Initiative) is a major initiative taken by ICMR and AIIMS and is India’s first project to provide treatment to people who suffer from a sudden heart attack, even before they receive medical attention. This initiative has institutional support from The Cardiology and Emergency Medicine departments of AIIMS and receives funding from the ICMR.
The project deploys a team that includes paramedics on motorcycles equipped with life-saving drugs, and the equipment reaches the spot wherever required. On getting the call, a pair of health professionals would rush to the spot and begin with thriftily gathering basic information on the…
