Vijayawada: City hosp sets world record

Vijayawada: The city-based Ramesh Hospitals set a Guinness World Record for holding the ‘largest gathering of cardiac surgery patients’.

As many as 1,020 patients who have undergone heart surgery at Ramesh Hospitals had gathered at the hospital’s auditorium on Thursday. All patients who had underwent open heart surgery, heart bypass, valve surgery and congenital heart surgery attended the session.

Speaking at the occasion, chief of the hospital group Dr Ramesh Babu said that the objective of organising the meet was to create awareness and give hope to people with heart ailments. He said that it has been their endeavour to provide quality healthcare to people living in cities as well as those living in semi-urban and rural areas.