[2] Its purpose as a center was to focus on complex cardiac surgery and heart transplantation.

NICS is supplied with 23 cardiac operating theaters, five digital catheterization laboratories including a hybrid catheterization laboratory, and 200 critical care beds for post-operative care.

NICS also has one of the largest pediatric intensive care units in the world.

The hospital has performed free cardiac procedures for children and successfully treated heart problems on newborns, as well as adults, from several countries.

The cardiac procedures that are performed in NICS include: complex heart valve repair, coronary artery bypass graft, pulmonary enterectomy for chronic pulmonary embolism, the Ross procedure, ventricular aneurysm repair, left ventricular remodeling and Dor procedure, electrophysiology and left ventricular assist device (LVAD) implantation.