INTRODUCTION

Devi Prasad Shetty (born 8 May 1953) is an Indian philanthropist and a cardiac
surgeon. He has leveraged economies of scale to provide affordable healthcare. He
was awarded the Padma Bhushan, third highest civilian award in India for his
contribution to the field of affordable healthcare
Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is chairman and Founder, Narayana Health (Narayana
Hrudayalaya in now Narayana Health)
Devi Shetty was born at Kinnigoli village Dakshina Kannada district, Karnataka,
India. The eighth of nine children, he decided to become a heart surgeon when he
was in fifth grade at school after hearing about a South African surgeon who had
just performed the world's first heart transplant.[3] After completing his graduate
degree in Medicine and post-graduate work in General Surgery fromKasturba
Medical College, Mangalore, he trained in cardiac surgery at Guy's Hospital in the
United Kingdom. He returned to India in 1989 and initially worked at B.M. Birla
Hospital in Kolkata. He performed the first neonatal heart surgery in the country on
a 9-day-old baby named "Ronnie" 1992 a successful operation in medical history.
In Kolkata he operated on Mother Teresa after she had a heart attack and
subsequently served as her personal physician.After some time, he moved
to Bangalore and started the Manipal Heart Foundation at Manipal
Hospital, Bangalore. Financial contribution for the construction of the hospital was
provided by Shetty's father-in-law.
He has performed over 15,000 heart operations.rf
Shetty's advice for good heart
Shetty, in an interview, says that key to good heart is walking and balanced food.
[5]
He gives five rules of thumb for heart health-diet (less carbohydrate, more
protein, less oil), regular exercise, quit smoking, control weight, control blood
pressure and sugar.[5]
Contributions
In 2001, Shetty founded Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH), a multi-specialty hospital
in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore, because he could not find any
employers who understood his vision. He believes that the cost of healthcare can
be reduced by 50 percent in the next 510 years if hospitals adopt the idea of
economies of scale.[6] Apart from cardiac surgery, NH also
has cardiology, neurosurgery, paediatric

surgery, haematology and transplant services, and nephrologyamong various

others. The heart hospital is the largest in the world with 1000 beds performing
over 30 major heart surgeries a day. The land on which the health city was built,
was previously a marshland which was reclaimed for this purpose. The Health City
intends to cater to about 15,000 outpatients every day. In August 2012, Shetty
announced an agreement with TriMedx, a subsidiary of Ascension Health, to create
a joint venture aimed at taking healthcare throughout India. In the past Narayana
Hrudayalaya has collaborated with Ascension Health to set up a health care city in
Cayman Islands, planned to eventually have 2,000 beds Shetty also founded
Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) in
Kolkata. Shetty has also signed a MOU with the Karnataka Government during the
Global Investor's meet to build a 10 billion 5,000 bed super speciality hospital near
the Bangalore International Airport. His company has sighed MOU with
Government of Gujarat, for setting up 5000 bed hospital at Ahmedabad.[8]
His company has built low cost 150 bed hospital at Mysore on land provided by
Government and used cross ventilation instead of air conditioning, to cut
investment cost.[9] He was a part of the seven-member panel of Board of Governors
which replaced the MCI and served for a period of one year before it was further
reconstituted.
His hospitals have reduced costs by taking advantage of the economies of scale,
this allows them to complete heart surgeries for a tenth of the cost in the United
States. The Wall Street Journal has given him the title of Henry Ford of heart
surgery.[10] In 2013 six new hospitals will be opened on the Narayana Hrudayalaya
model, across the country which will provide high quality treatment at low cost. In
the next seven years, there are plans to expand to 30,000 beds with hospitals in
India, Africa and other countries in Asia.[6]
Shetty and his family have a 75 percent stake in Narayana Hrudayalaya which he
plans to preserve so that he does not have to compromise on the freedom or
decision making power in his mission to help the underprivileged and to bring
down the cost of healthcare in the country. [9]
Yeshasvini
Yeshasvini is the world's cheapest comprehensive health insurance scheme, at Rs.
10 (20 cents) per month, designed by Shetty and the Government of Karnataka for
the poor farmers of the state. It is very well-used in Karnataka with 4 million
people covered.[4]

Awards and recognition

Padma Bhushan award for Medicine in 2012[11]

Karnataka Ratna award in 2001

Entrepreneur of the Year at ET awards in 2012[6]

Won the 2011 The Economist Innovation Awards for the Business
process field.[12]

Honorary Degree, University of Minnesota in 2011

Honorary Degree, Indian Institute of Technology Madras in 2014

Schwab Foundation's award in 2005

Padma Shri award for Medicine in 2004

Dr. B C Roy award in 2003

Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award in 2003

Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2003

Rajyotsava award in 2002

Indian of the year in public sector choose by CNN-IBN for the year 2012

Cardiology - Paediatric
Cardiac Sciences at Narayana Health specializes in all streams of cardiology
including Interventional Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Paediatric Cardiology.
We have with us renowned cardiac specialists who perform amongst the World's
Largest Number of Heart Surgeries and Interventional Cardiac Treatment.
Innovative techniques and super - specialists give patients (both adult and children
including new borns) the advantage of superior therapies and preventive care for
disorders of the heart and vascular system (blood vessels).

Narayana Health brings to the table an unparalleled children's heart health division
in the country. Children from over76 countries suffering from congenital heart
problems come here for treatment, which includes Non-invasive Diagnostics,
Cardiac Catheterisations and Cardiothoracic Surgeries.
Complex, wide ranging Pediatrics Interventions including Device Closures and
Valvuloplasties in various Congenital Heart Defects are performed across various
age groups including neonates.