Two hospitals in East Africa have announced participation in the American College of Cardiology (ACC)’s CathPCI registry, which aims to assess treatments and outcomes related to cardiac catheterization and percutaneous coronary interventions (PCIs).
The Aga Khan Health Services hospitals in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, and Mombasa, Kenya, are the first in East Africa to participate in any of the ACC’s National Cardiovascular Database Registry (NCDR) programs. A total of 10 nations now participate in the ACC’s clinical registries, which are designed to improve care collaboration and patient outcomes for cardiovascular disease.
“The ACC's efforts to expand NCDR globally is vital to our mission of transforming cardiovascular care and improving heart health,” ACC president C. Michael Valentine, MD, said in a press release. "In addition, the challenges of health care in this region are well-known—from low access to insufficient research. This partnership with Aga Khan Health Services will provide these first NCDR registry sites quality metrics to improve heart health in their communities."
Sulaiman Shahabuddin, regional CEO for Agan Khan Health Services in East Africa, said participation in the CathPCI registry “will allow these hospitals to improve the quality of their recently established cardiovascular programs by tracking and benchmarking outcomes of cardiovascular procedures.”
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