The North Bengal Medical College and Hospital (NBMCH) will soon get a dedicated cardiology department and a catheterization laboratory soon.

Sources said the work of the new under construction super-specialty building had been pending for a long time and a new agency was recruited to speed up the construction of the super-specialty block.

“Catheterization laboratory also known as cath-lab is a room with diagnostic imaging equipment and other heart-related facilities. In this lab, interventional cardiological-measures like angioplasty, angiography, installation of pacemaker and other heart related diseases will be treated. The cardiology department will come up at the seventh floor” said a source.

“The NBMCH has three cardiologists now. As soon as the super-specialty building gets ready, more doctors and technicians will be recruited to run the completely modernised while more departments like neurology and nephrology will be added along with the cardiology department,” the source added.