Abstract
Highlights
- India faces an epidemic of cardiovascular disease and ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) and is in need of urgent solutions.
- Implementing effective systems in resource-poor settings has distinctive challenges.
- Universal health care is critical for the success of the STEMI-India model.
- Any physician should be able to identify STEMI and deliver appropriate fibrinolysis.
- To counter the epidemic of cardiovascular disease and STEMI, a nationalized program is needed.