Hridya Saksham- Through this program, we are trying to reach out to State government partnership in training paediatricians with pediatric echocardiography skills in District Early Intervention Centers( DEIC) which would help in very early screening and diagnosis of any congenital heart defect and would speed up the treatment process. This is in collaboration with the RBSK scheme of government where no child should die of any congenital heart defect.
At present we have only 250 pediatric cardiologists in our country and only 13-15 are getting trained every 3 years.
We need one pediatric cardiologist for every district in India, this ill take a very long time, so the option which is adopted by many countries abroad is to upskill the paediatricians with echocardiography skill for early diagnosis.