500-bed heart hospital to be operational from Feb 2009
 

Hyderabad|India|November'2008: Indians are genetically three times more vulnerable for heart disease than Europeans. India needs to perform 25 Lakh heart surgeries annually, and India does approximately 80000 heart surgeries a year across the country. Heart Surgery in India today is not affordable by the common man. To address this problem Narayana Hrudayalaya group of hospitals launched a chain of hospitals under the banner of health cities.

Addressing a press conference,Dr. Devi Shetty, Chairman - Narayana Hrudayalaya said that the Phase-I of health city in Hyderabad will start with 500 bed super specialty heart hospital for adult and paediatric cardiac surgery. The 500-bed heart hospital will be operational by February 2009. This will be followed by 1000 bed cancer hospital. Narayana Hrudayalaya Malla Reddy hospital Campus will cover 40 acres and 5000 beds in three years. The entire infrastructure is created to make high tech health care affordable to the common man. Narayana Hrudayalaya foundation will subsidize the treatment of poor heart patients through its charitable wing.

Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City in Bangalore covers approximately 30 acres of land with world’s largest heart hospital with 1000 beds performing over 30 major heart surgeries a day, surrounded by a 1400 bed super specialty cancer hospital "Mazumdar – Shaw Cancer Centre", Narayana Nethralaya – a super specialty eye hospital with an infrastructure to perform 500 eye surgeries daily and SPARSH orthopaedic super specialty hospital. Narayana Hrudayalaya health city in Bangalore is an academic institution in the process of becoming a university. Our group is in the process of creating 5000 bed health cities each at Jaipur, Calcutta, Ahemedabad, Jamshedpur and Bhuveneshwar, Dr. Shetty added.

Reachout's News Bureau
 Nov' 2008