The department of cardiology in SCB medical college was started in the year 1968. The first Intensive care unit of the state was established in this department in 1973. The first pacemaker implantation was done in the same year. The first cardiac cath lab was set up in 1974. The department started the first super specialty course of the state (DM -Cardiology) with 2 seats in 1984.  Modern state of the art cath lab was installed in 1998. The number of DM seats was increased to 6 in the year 2010. The department was shifted from old medicine building to the present new Institute of cardiovascular science building in the same year. Currently 8 DM students are inducted every year for the super specialization course.

The department performs on an average 1500 angiograms , 900 angioplasties, 200 pacemaker implantations per year besides lots of other interventions like PTMC , EPS , RFA etc. This department caters to approximately 70,000 numbers of outdoor patients and 7500 indoor patients annually. Approximately 50,000 ECG; 12,000 ECHO and 350 TMT are performed annually.