High risk pregnant women can avail first ever F Echo service at SKY Hospital
Source: The Sangai Express
Imphal, September 04 2018:
A seminar on "Fetal Echocardiography'' was held at Imphal Hotel, organized jointly by Manipur Heart Foundation, SKY Hospital and Imphal Obstetrics and Gynaecological Society, today, conveyed a press release issued by Manager Manipur Heart Foundation.
The purpose of the seminar was to create awareness among the doctors, other healthcare professionals and the public of the role of a specialized heart scanning technique called Fetal Echocardiography (F Echo) which is used for imaging of the heart while the child is still in the mother's womb.
The F Echo should be performed between 18 and 20 weeks of pregnancy to detect intra-cardiac defects.
For the first time in Manipur, high risk pregnant women can avail such specialised service at SKY Hospital.
The function was attended by Dr S Radhakrishnan, Director and HOD Paediatric Cardiology Department, Fortis Escort Heart Institute, New Delhi, who is also a visiting Paediatric Cardiologist to SKY Hospital as the resource person and Dr T Bilashini Devi, Senior Consultant Obstetrician & Gynaecologist, City Hospital and Dr L Shyamkishore, president Manipur Heart Foundation as chairpersons.