Home Care for Heart Patients

 Written by: Wahida Sabir

Heart disease is common in most people, but aged people suffer more. If we do not take well care of patients of heart disease at home, they might face some crucial health problems. AEPO’s writer/producer has talked to some patients and a physician about this issue.

Fazl Mohammad, a resident of Kabul city says, “I am suffering from heart disease and it increased by sadness. No one pay attention to my food and medication at home.”

 Shahbibi, a resident of Qarabagh district, Kabul province says, “I have heart disease and I am suffering from body pain and I suffer more when eat a little more salty food, and my family doesn’t care about my diet.”

 Doctor Nadir Nadiri, an internist at Ibn Sina Hospital, Kabul city says, “A small carelessness could cause the exacerbation of the disease. If the patient suffers more after heart attack, and they do not pay attention to it, more heart attacks could be occured and the patient might face more problems like the enlargement of heart and heart failure which could cause his/her death.”

 What do patients think about the causes of not taking care of heart disease patients at homes?

Matiullah from Parwan province says, “If a heart disease patient needs medicines and they do not prepare him/her the medicines, he/she might face heart attack.”

A woman, who doesn’t want to mention her name in the program, says, “I was suffering from my arm. The doctor diagnosed that the arteries of my heart are blocked and he prevented me from physical working. As I do not have anyone at home to help me in house chores, I have to do my house chores.”

Doctor We have patients who have a narrowed or narrowed heart artery, or a narrowed heart valve, which causes the heart to move too much, shortness of breath, or they cannot do their daily physical movements well. Our concrete is circular. If we do not pay attention and do not take the medicine, or if the patient has liver disease, his blood pressure may rise, and if he eats fatty and salty foods, he will have problems.