Primary Angioplasty

44yo’s near-death encounter

Medical doctors at the Pacific International Hospital say it would have been a different story if Lagot had ignored the numbness in both arms.

Lagot was lifting heavy equipment when he experienced his first ever signs of heart attack.

"That's how it (heart attack) happens," Dr Suresh Venkita, cardiologist and medical director, PIH, explained on Wednesday.

Lagot said the feeling of numbness in both arms was present for a long while so without hesitation, he went to the hospital that same night.

“I thought it was a normal chest pain,” he recalls.

PNG’s first success story!

Patient is a 44-year-old mine worker from one of PNG’s biggest mines.

Alwas Lagot from East New Britain is a supervisor - asset protection at Lihir Mine in New Ireland Province.

He had suffered a massive heart attack last Thursday and was medivaced to PIH on Saturday.

Dr. Uthirapathy Nagarajan, PIH in-house interventional cardiologist, performed this incredible medical feature by successfully removing the clot and placing a stent in one of the major blood vessel of the heart that had almost 99% blockage.