Devi Prasad Shetty FRCS is an Indian entrepreneur and cardiac surgeon who is the chairman and founder of Narayana Health, a chain of 21 medical centers in India. He has performed more than 16,000 heart operations. In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2012, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare. There is an episode about his life and work on the Netflix TV series The Surgeon's Cut.
The Mar Augustine Kandathil Memorial Lisie Hospital is a hospital near Kaloor, in Kochi, India. It was founded in memory of Mar Augustine Kandathil, shortly after his demise, according to his original vision and plans, in 1957, as a token of his devotion to St. Thérèse de Lisieux. It is managed by the Archdiocese of Ernakulam. Pennsylvaniat is a tertiary referral hospital and one of the largest in Cochin. The Lisie Heart Institute is a major interventional Cardiology and Cardiothoracic centre. It performed nearly 4000 interventional cardiac procedures and cardiac surgeries in 2006. Their team of doctors was reconstituted in 2008 with the joining of Jose Chacko Periappuram as the Head of Cardiac Surgery and Jacob Abraham as the head of Cardiac Anaesthesia. The present team was instrumental in performing the first total arterial bypass surgery on a beating heart and heart transplantation under Dr. Jose Chacko in the state of Kerala.
Andhra Medical College is in Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India, and affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences. It is the oldest medical colleges in Andhra Pradesh, and the sixth oldest in India. It is recognized by the Medical Council of India. Dr. P. Shyam Prasad is the present vice chancellor.
Gandhi Medical College is a medical college in Hyderabad, India affiliated with Kaloji Narayana Rao University of Health Sciences. The college was originally affiliated to NTR University of Health Sciences.
Ramakanta Panda, MCh, is the Chief Consultant for Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery and the Group CEO of the Asian Heart Institute, a speciality cardiac care hospital under the aegis of Asian Hospitals, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex in Mumbai, India.In 2002, he set up India’s famed Asian Heart Institute. Dr.Ramakanta Panda has performed about 28000 successful cardiac surgeries as of 2022 including over 1900 redo bypass surgeries. Conferred the Padma Bhushan in 2010 by the Government of India, Dr.Panda’s incredible 99.8% success rate in bypass surgery is the platinum standard in cardiac surgery across the world. He has repeatedly and successfully operated high risk cardiac cases, sent to him from all over the world after being universally regarded as otherwise inoperable. He has performed more than 5000 extremely high risk surgeries as of 2022.s. . Dr Panda is also called 'one of the safest heart surgeons in the world' and 'the 'surgeon with the safest hands'. Medgate Today honored Dr. Panda as the No 1 heart surgeon and one of the 25 living legends in the healthcare of India. In 2009, he led the team that successfully operated on the then Prime Minister of India, Manmohan Singh. This was followed by highly complex surgeries on several leaders of Indian politics, such as Lalu Prasad Yadav, Tarun Gogoi, Narasingha Mishra, D Raja, Rajiv Shukla and many others. Hollywood, Bollywood and the thespians of corporate India trust only his hands when it comes to open heart surgery. He holds the world record for performing a 12-graft procedure in a man with 17 blocks in 2014. He is recognized for pioneering many techniques in cardiac surgery. Largely a very humble man known for his philanthropy and mild-manners, Dr Panda is respected for his ethics. He is a crusader against the cut-practice and other malpractices that ail certain pockets of the healthcare system in India. Despite his reputation and his accomplishments, Dr. Ramakanta Panda is a quiet, unassuming person with great love for wildlife photography. His CSR work in Bandhavgarh National Park and Kanha National Park are well known. For all his stellar achievements, he has had incredibly humble beginnings. Born in the Damodarpur village of Jajpur district in Orissa, in 1954, he is the son of a farmer who has proved that perseverance and persistence can fulfill the most ordinary persons’ dreams.
The ÇOMÜ Hospital is the biggest research and teaching hospital in the Western Marmara region of Turkey which serves the area of north Aegean and South-West Marmara regions. The current president and chief executive officer is Dr. Murat Coşar. The hospital is a 160-bed facility that provides patients with a complete range of primary and specialty care services.
Sahyadri Hospitals is a chain of hospitals in Maharashtra, India.
Narayana Health is an Indian chain of multi-speciality hospitals, heart centres, and primary care facilities with its headquarters in Bengaluru, India. It was founded by Dr. Devi Shetty in the year 2000.
Narayana Institute of Cardiac Sciences (NICS) is a hospital in Bommasandra, Bangalore, India, operated by the Narayana Health group. This superspeciality flagship cardiac hospital of Narayana Health is one of the largest in the world and is equipped with 23 dedicated Cardiac Operation Theatres and five Digital Cath Labs of which one is a Hybrid, capable of performing both interventional cardiac procedures as well as complex heart surgeries. It has been accredited by the Joint Commission International and the NABH.
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Mysore is a unit of Narayana Health in Devanur, Mysore, India. It currently treats patients from the regions of South Karnataka, including services for cardiology and cardiac surgery, nephrology, urology, neurology and gastroenterology.
Mazumdar Shaw Medical Centre is an NABH-accredited tertiary care hospital, inside NH Health City, Bommasandra Industrial Area, Bangalore, India. The facility is owned in partnership by the Director of Biocon Limited, Kiran Mazumdar Shaw and the Founder and Chairman of the Narayana Health Group, Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty. The hospital performs organ transplants and provides cancer therapy.
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital is a super-speciality hospital located in Howrah, West Bengal. It is a unit of the Narayana Health group and treats patients from the twin cities of Howrah and Kolkata in West Bengal, India. Its sister hospital is Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Howrah. The hospital, established by Dr Devi Prasad Shetty, is a centre for oncology and cardiac sciences facilities in Eastern India. Its tertiary care services include cardiac surgery, neurology, neurosurgery and orthopaedics.
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jaipur is a tertiary care hospital of the Narayana Health Group in Jaipur, Rajasthan, India. It treats patients from Rajasthan and other neighbouring states. The hospital is accredited by the Joint Commission (JCI) and is the first hospital in Rajasthan to obtain this accreditation. It was commissioned in 2011 in Sanganer, with cardiology, neurosciences, orthopaedics and nephrology its main specialities.
Brahmananda Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Jamshedpur is a tertiary care hospital in the state of Jharkhand, India, operated by the Narayana Health group. The hospital provides cardiac surgery and cardiology, nephrology, an oncology outpatient department, general surgery, general medicine, gynaecology and dentistry. The hospital provides financial assistance to patients with the backing of local government organizations and NGOs for surgery and treatment.
Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Guwahati is a tertiary care hospital of the Narayana Health group in Guwahati, Assam, India. Its main medical specialities are internal medicine, cardiology and cardiac sciences, neurology and neurosurgery, orthopaedics and joint replacement, and critical care facilities for adults, the elderly and children.
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, HSR Layout is a hospital in Bangalore, India and is part of the Narayana Health Group of Hospitals. The mani specialities of the hospital are day surgery, gastroenterology, cardiology, obstetrics and gynaecology and emergency services. The hospital is NABH accredited, and has three operating theaters and a catheterisation laboratory. The hospital services the residential communities residing in and around HSR Layout.
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, Ahmedabad is a tertiary care hospital in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India, which treats patients in Gujarat and southern Rajasthan. The hospital is a part of Narayana Health group, headquartered in Bengaluru, which was founded in 2012 by cardiac surgeon Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty in 2001.
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS), also known as Rabindranath Tagore Hospital, in Mukundapur, Kolkata, West Bengal, India, is a multispeciality, tertiary care unit of Narayana Health group. It is a 681-bedded NABH accredited multi-super-speciality quaternary care hospital established in the year 2000. RTIICS has 16 fully equipped operation theatres, 4th Generation Da Vinci Robot, and four state-of-the-art Catheterisation laboratories with 24-hour emergency facilities. RTIICS provides services not only to the people of West Bengal and the neighbouring states in Eastern India and Northeastern India, it is a global healthcare hub catering to patients from countries such as Bangladesh, Bhutan, Myanmar, Nepal as well as African countries. It is equipped with clinical and technical expertise proven over time. The institute has set benchmarks in providing quaternary care services in Cardiac Surgery, Heart Transplants, LVAD, Interventional Cardiology, Pacemaker and Device Therapy, Electro Physiology and Preventive Cardiology.
Belle Vue Clinic is an NABH accredited premiere medical care institution that is one of the earliest hospitals established in Kolkata. The Hospital is a part of the M.P Birla Group that owns and runs a large number of businesses and enterprises in the city. Priyamvada Devi Birla, wife of the late Madhav Prasad Birla is the founder of this Hospital. The Clinic had the first ICCU in the private sector in 1971 and the first centre to start renal transplant. Belle Vue also became the first centre in Eastern India conducting tissue typing for Organ Transplant patients.
Narayana Multispeciality Hospital, sister hospital of Narayana Superspeciality Hospital, Howrah, is a multi-speciality hospital of Narayana Health on Andul road, Howrah, West Bengal. Its proximity to Kolkata makes it accessible to patients from the metropolis. The hospital has 150 beds in unit 1 and 250 beds in unit 2.
