The Jeevak Heart Hospital and Research Institute, Patna is Bihar's first fully equipped super-specialty hospital providing all facilities for the entire range of invasive and non-invasive cardiac procedures including open heart surgeries for all adult and paediatric heart diseases. Until August 1998, Bihar did not have any facility for coronary angiography, angioplasty, open heart surgery, etc. and patients suffering from serious cardiac problem had to travel to heart hospitals in far off cities, at great risk to life, with additional cost and hardship. With the start of Jeevak Heart Hospital in August 1998, this critical gap in health care services in Bihar has been covered. The first coronary angiography, first angioplasty, first coronary artery bypass grafting, first valve replacement and neonatal heart surgery was all performed at Jeevak Heart Hospital in Bihar.