Cath Lab (planned)

A heart attack is a race against time. The faster a blocked artery is opened, the more heart muscle is saved—and today, many families in South Telangana must travel to a metro city for that procedure.

Aravinda Hospitals & Advanced Medical Services is a developing 300-bed multispecialty tertiary-care hospital on the NH44 corridor, Telangana, near Mahabubnagar. As part of its long-term cardiac programme, a cardiac catheterisation laboratory—a Cath Lab—is planned. It is not yet operational, and this page describes what is being planned, not what is available today.

Here you will find what a Cath Lab does, how the planned facility fits into the hospital's cardiology and structural heart programme, and who is guiding its development.

What a Cath Lab is and why it is planned

A Cath Lab is a specialised procedure room where cardiologists pass thin tubes (catheters) through a blood vessel in the wrist or groin to reach the heart under X-ray guidance. It allows the team to see blockages in the coronary arteries and, in many cases, treat them in the same session.

The procedures a Cath Lab typically supports include coronary angiography (imaging the arteries), angioplasty and stenting (opening a blocked artery), pacemaker implantation, and certain structural heart interventions—the interventional side of the cardiology programme.

The Cath Lab is listed as planned in the project memorandum. Aravinda Hospitals will confirm its commissioning timeline once equipment and clinical teams are in place. Until then, patients with chest pain should follow the guidance on our emergency page and call +91 84542 90000.

Mentorship from Dr. C. Raghu

The development of the cardiology and structural heart programme, including the planned Cath Lab, is being guided by Dr. C. Raghu, who serves Aravinda Hospitals as Mentor & Advisor, Cardiology & Structural Heart Program.

In this advisory role, Dr. Raghu contributes to the clinical design of the programme: the protocols the team will follow, equipment specifications, the training pathway for interventional staff, and the governance standards that ensure every procedure is evidence-based and audited.

Dr. Raghu is a mentor and advisor to the programme rather than a full-time consultant at the hospital. His background is on his profile page, and the wider consultant team is listed under Our doctors.

How the planned Cath Lab will connect to emergency and critical care

A Cath Lab is only as effective as the pathway around it. At Aravinda Hospitals, the planned facility is being designed to sit within a chain that begins at the roadside:

• Emergency arrival. The 24×7 emergency department on NH44 receives the patient and records an ECG within minutes.
• Rapid diagnosis. Laboratory and imaging services confirm the picture with cardiac enzymes and, where needed, echocardiography.
• Intervention. Once operational, the Cath Lab would allow the interventional team to open the artery on site during the Golden Hour.
• Recovery. The patient moves to a monitored bed in the Intensive Care Units, supported by the central monitoring and cardiac monitoring systems.
• Rehabilitation. Cardiac rehabilitation and follow-up continue through the specialised OPD.

The same pathway supports planned (elective) procedures, where a patient is admitted to a two-sharing or VIP room, undergoes the procedure, and returns home within a short stay.

What the Cath Lab will mean for the region

The hospital's memorandum identifies cardiac care as one of the treatments for which patients currently travel to metropolitan cities, at a cost of time, money, and outcomes. A Cath Lab on the NH44 corridor would bring interventional cardiology within reach of Mahabubnagar district, surrounding mandals, and neighbouring parts of Karnataka and Rayalaseema, and give smaller hospitals along the corridor a tertiary destination for patients with acute coronary syndromes.

We describe this facility as planned because it is. When the Cath Lab is commissioned, this page will be updated with the services available, the team, and how to access them.

Stay informed about the cardiac programme

The planned Cath Lab is a significant step in bringing tertiary cardiac care to the NH44 corridor. If you, your family, or your organisation would like updates as the cardiology and structural heart programme develops, we would be glad to keep you informed.

Register your interest or write to care@aravindahospitals.com. Cardiologists and cath-lab technologists interested in future roles can visit Careers.