Multan Institute of Cardiology

Multan Institute of Cardiology is the original name of Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi Institute of Cardiology. It is located in Multan city in Pakistan. It was established by Chaudhry Pervaiz Elahi former chief minister of Punjab province of Pakistan in 2006.HistoryThe project of establishing a state of the art tertiary care center for cardiac patients went through various ups and downs in its early days. It was the desire of millions of people living in south Punjab yet was delayed by bureaucracy. In early 2003, Ch Pervaiz Elahi, the honorable Chief Minister of Punjab, took it the center as one of his top priority development projects. The seriousness of his resolve manifested itself when he appointed Col. (Ret) Prof M A Cheema as the Project Director of MIC. Prof. M A Cheema is one of the pioneers of cardiac surgery in Pakistan and had previously established Cardiac Surgery in the Mayo Hospital and Punjab Institute of Cardiology Lahore. Under his leadership the project moved forward with great success and its outdoor service started functioning in 2006. The indoor service was also established within less than one year after the formal opening of the outdoor service. Prof. Cheema carefully built up the team of clinicians for this young institute. He managed to bring local and expatriate experts in the fields of cardiology, cardiac surgery and anesthesia who played a vital role in establishing world class services within such a short period of time. The notable personalities who joined the institute as a result of Prof. Cheema's motivation included Prof Haider Zaman (Cardiac Surgeon), Dr. Anjum Jalal (Cardiac Surgeon) Dr. Bilal Qureshi (Cardiologist), Dr. Haroon Babar (Cardiologist) and Dr. Rana Altaf Ahmed (Anesthetist). The first open heart surgery was performed on 29 October 2007 and by March 2008 over 50 open heart operations were conducted without any surgical mortality.