{"id":42269,"date":"2020-11-20T12:47:41","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T12:47:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-launches-a-cardiac-catheterization-lab\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T13:43:53","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:43:53","slug":"rwanda-launches-a-cardiac-catheterization-lab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-launches-a-cardiac-catheterization-lab\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda launches a cardiac catheterization lab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The cardiac catheterization lab, also medically known as a \u201ccardiac cath lab,\u201d is a hospital room where doctors perform the minimal cutting of patient skin to diagnose and treat cardiovascular diseases.<\/p>\n<p>The lab also allows better and soft heart tissue visualization, provides more pertinent physiological information and results in lower radiation exposure than using continuous passing of x-ray beam to the patient\u2019s body for examinations (fluoroscopy).<\/p>\n<p>This lab diagnoses coronary artery disease, causes of heart failure or cardiomyopathy, evaluates congenital heart disease and heart valves\u2019 problems.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe spent many months talking about this cardiac cath lab, but today it has become a reality. We can now continue with the next procedures to save lives. We used to lose a lot of money and lives because this intervention could not be conducted here.<br \/>\nThis will be history,\u201d Dr. Daniel Ngamije, minister of health said while launching the lab at King Faisal Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Minister, the lab is registered among other government efforts, to improve the health sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been spending about Rwf20million for each patient to be treated in Kenya; today we will be spending Rwf4million only,\u201d Dr. Ngamije said.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ngamije said that the laboratory will accept health insurance schemes in use in Rwanda, including the community based health insurance commonly known as Mutuelle de sant\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Edgar Kalimba, Deputy CEO of King Faisal Hospital said that not all heart problems require open-heart surgery hence the cardiac cath lab being advantageous because patients benefit from minimally invasive procedures including cardiac catheterization.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith Cardiac cath Lab, we can diagnose and treat a whole host of issues, this is the best technology, but at the same time expensive to establish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kalimba reveals that this lab is worth Rwf800 million while its maintenance is budgeted to Rwf200million annually.<\/p>\n<p>Before the establishment of the first cardiac cath lab, patients were flown to countries including Kenya, India, and South Africa for treatment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37173 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0570-2-17e1a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37174 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0573-5-2ded6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37175 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0580-3-eb67f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37176 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0582-5-f3c67.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37177 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0610-2-a67a4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37178 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0629-fbe37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37179 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0680-88e06.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37180 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ry6b0712-2-3a2e8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the first time in Rwanda, the health sector has launched a cardiac catheterization laboratory that helps to diagnose, 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