Cardiology

Cardiac Patients come to this facility for its accessible location and high quality of cardiology services, uptodate cardio diagnostic facilities:

• ECG Test.
• Stress test (Exercise Tolerance Test).
• Holter monitoring.
• Echo-Cardiograph.
• Cardiac Cath. Laboratory.
• Pacemakers implantation (External).
• Diagnostic Angiographies.
• Balloon Angioplasty and stenting.

All these techniques are carried out by hospital's skilled Consultant Cardiologists and a number of visiting cardiology consultants from other parts of Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, UK and USA.

The Comprehensive Cardiovascular Program:

PREVENTION IS BETTER THAN CURE.

Umm Al Qura General Hospital offers a good service cardiology program, from non-invasive diagnostic procedures. Intensive Coronary Care Unit have three equipped beds.

We offer comprehensive care to patients suffering from a wide range of cardiovascular diseases. Services range from complete diagnostic testing and cardiac rehab. to treating cardiac conditions and heart attacks.

In Cardiac emergencies, immediate intervention is critical to increase the chances of survival and recovery. In our hospital, treatment of acute myocardial ischemia or infarction (heart attacks) is being successfully done.

Our state-of-the-art facilities are staffed by experienced, certified cardiologists and specially trained nurses and technicians to ensure patients receive immediate, appropriate and compassionate care.

We are reaching out to our community by initiating a Preventive Cardiology Programme, to contribute to decrease very high incidence of coronary heart events in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, by timely modification of our life style, by adopting strict modified Mediterranean diet, preventing and treating obesity, cessation of smoking, strict control of hyperglycemia, and ensuring optimum level of good lipids, and most important, recognizing / identifying those at risk of acute coronary event.