“When I did 100 heart operations without a single fatality...
“Today, I am in a position to tell any patient coming for treatment to pay me whatever they can afford...and if they can’t, we will do the operation for free”
DEVI SHETTY, 67
The heart surgeon’s avowed calling is to provide India’s millions with affordable world-class health services. The Narayana Health chain of multi-speciality hospitals he founded, present in 18 cities, promises just that
When Devi Shetty was just 14 years old, something remarkable happened in the world of medicine. Christiaan Barnard, a South African cardiac surgeon, performed the world’s first human-to-human heart transplant operation, and the patient lived for 18 days. Shetty, who was studying in a school in Mangalore, Karnataka, was so awed by the development that he
