Kuwaiti ministry launches awareness campaign on heart attacks

The Ministry of Health has launched a nationwide campaign at hospitals, and healthcare centers, different government institutions and public gathering places to raise people awareness about the risks of heart attacks.
The three-week campaign includes a variety of activities such as displaying movies and giving lectures on the topic, Dr. Ghalia Al-Mutairi, director of ministry's media department, said in a press statement on Monday.
She added that the campaigners will distribute brochures, write posts on social media and send SMS for patients and citizens on the causes of the congestive heart failure (CHF).
The campaign also aims to educate people about best methods for diagnosing and treating heart diseases, she said, adding it coincides with a number of campaigns organized by several countries across the globe on the same diseases.
The drive is part of the ministry's strategy aiming at raising awareness on different kinds of diseases like heart diseases and the CHF, she noted.
She unveiled that the ministry launched a project of treatment of heart attacks by therapeutic cardiac catheterization. She noted Kuwait is considered a leading country in the region in this field.
This treatment decreased the mortality rate caused by heart attacks by roughly four percent, she said.
The ministry started preparing a project to use therapeutic cardiac catheterization at all hospitals and health care centers, she concluded.
Heart attacks occur when the flow of blood to the heart is blocked, most often by a build-up of fat, cholesterol and other substances, which form a plaque in the arteries that feed the heart (coronary arteries).