Narayana Hrudayalaya

Narayana Hrudayalaya (Kannada: ನಾರಾಯಣ ಹೃದಯಾಲಯ), headquartered in the city of Bengaluru, India, is one of India's largest multi-specialty hospital chains. The Bangalore cardiac unit of Narayana Hrudayalaya is one of the world's largest pediatric heart hospitals. It is the brainchild of the renowned cardiac surgeon, Dr. Devi Shetty. Narayana Hrudayalaya also receives patients from outside India, and it has created a record of performing nearly 15,000 surgeries on patients from 25 foreign countries. It is also a renowned centre for telemedicine and it offers this service free of cost.

Despite helping so many poor patients, it is known for being so efficient, that it has a higher profit margin (7.7% after tax) than most American Private Hospitals (6.9%).

It has 5,000 beds (as of 2012) and it is building large hospitals across India totaling 30,000 beds, to enable it to gain large economies of scale and bargain down the cost of supplies to the hospitals.

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