A Webinar hosted on Tuesday, October 13, by public trust V-Can, which usually tackles civic issues, focused on health this time. Trust chief Indrani Malkani said this was the first in their just-launched health and well-being series. The focus was: 'heart attack, the hidden epidemic -- how do we handle them.' Malkani said there was an emphasis on how one should handle a heart attack during COVID-19 times.

Burning topic

The expert guest for the talk, Dr Dev B Pahlajani, an interventional cardiologist and head of cardiology at Breach Candy Hospital, called the focus on heart attack "a burning topic because it is the leading cause of deaths worldwide. In the city or even globally, deaths from heart attack are four times that of deaths from cancer. Though we talk about the pandemic, heart attack is and has been a worldwide epidemic," said the top doc.