Every year in Valais, around 600 patients are admitted to the Hôpital du Valais as emergency cases with symptoms of myocardial infarction (heart attack). Acute myocardial infarction is life-threatening and requires urgent treatment at Sion Hospital, where the patient will undergo a coronary angiogram and have the heart artery responsible for the infarction reopened.
WARNING: EVERY MINUTE COUNTS! Here is the “HELP Guide – What to do in an emergency” from the Swiss Heart Foundation.