The National Institute of Cardiovascular Diseases (NICVD) has released its annual performance report for 2025, highlighting historic achievements in the provision of free and advanced cardiac care.
According to the report, during 2025 NICVD Karachi provided completely free treatment to more than 1.6 million patients from across the country, reinforcing its status as the world’s largest centre offering free cardiac surgeries and primary angioplasty services.
The data shows that in 2025, NICVD Karachi performed 9,205 primary angioplasties, 6,442 early invasive and elective angioplasties, and over 18,757 angiographies.
In addition, 3,149 paediatric catheterisations and interventions were carried out, along with 285 percutaneous transvenous mitral commissurotomy (PTMC) procedures.
During the year, 41 transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) procedures were also performed. Each TAVI procedure costs approximately Rs 4 million, but these complex interventions were conducted entirely free of charge with the support of the Government of Sindh.
The institute also carried out 1,567 adult open-heart surgeries and 1,231 paediatric open-heart surgeries. Moreover, 66 stroke patients underwent timely procedures that saved them from lifelong disability.
