August 11, 2014
After a 2 hour delay of Jay's flight, he finally arrived in
Hyderabad by 12.30 am and checked into his room by 1.15 am and crashed into his
bed straight away. After a really Graduation weekend, Jay was looking forward to his first day in Hyderabad. We had meetings scheduled with Dr. Krishnamohan
(senior cardiologist, CARE hostpital), Mr. Thiyagarajan, the Sales Manager
South of Medtronic India for South India and Dr. Ramesh, Head of Cardiology,
STAR Hospital. Dr. Ksrishnamohan and Mr.
Thiyagarajan helped us identify the key barriers in the carepathway of
bradycardia patients receiving pacemakers. It was really interesting to know
about Medtronic’s Healthy Heart for All Campaign and how it was an attempt to help the less affluent patients, financially and
increase patient awareness. Another barrier was less number of cardiologists
and EP’s. We would love to but can’t share the details of those issues here due
to confidentiality clauses.
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| Meeting at CARE Hospital with Dr. Krishnamahon |
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| Meeting at Medtronic |
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| Group outside of the Medtronic building |
After our first two meetings, we had lunch at Chutney’s and
everybody seemed to thoroughly enjoy the South Indian food!
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| South Indian Thali |
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| Puris for the thali |
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We met with Dr. Ramesh (HOD, STAR Hospital) after lunch and
he helped us dig deeper into the financial barriers that deter patients getting
pacemaker implantations. After a long day of work, we ended up having American food for dinner ironically. We relaxed and crashed into
our beds right away. We had plans to observe a pacemaker implantation procedure
in the afternoon and had some rest to finally recover from our jet lag and
sleepless nights in Norway.
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