Question : CARDIAC SURGERY

(a) whether the treatment of cardiac surgery in the Safdarjung Hospital is cheaper than that in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS);

(b) if so, the reasons therefor;

(c) whether the percentage of success in the cases of cardiac surgery done at Safdarjung Hospital as well as G.B. Pant Hospital is far lower than that of AIIMS;

(d) if so, the reasons therefor; and

(e) the steps being taken by the Government to improve the quality of cardiac treatment at Safdarjung Hospital and to depute efficient team of cardiac surgeons in this hospital?

MINISTER OF HEALTH AND FAMILY WELFARE AND PARLIAMENTARY AFFAIRS (SMT. SUSHMA SWARAJ)

(a) to (e) : The treatment of cardiac surgery in the Safdargung Hospital is cheaper than in the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) because a number of components of medical health care including certain medicines and disposable items are provided there free of cost to the patients. The percentage of success of cardiac surgery in SJ Hospital is as god as in any good cardiac centre in the country including AIIMS. In so far as, G.B. Pant Hospital is concerned, it has been intimated that the mortality rate in various cardiac surgeries ranges from 3 to 10%.