Health City
Narayana Hrudayalaya has innovated with the concept of health city which means 'One-point for all Healthcare needs. Its first health city was set up in the outskirts of Bengaluru. Financial contribution for the construction of the hospital was provided by Dr. Shetty's father-in-law. Spread over 25 acres (100,000 m2), it is located in the Bommasandra Industrial Area on the Hosur Road in Bengaluru. With the Phase I of the construction being completed, the hospital currently has six stories containing 500 beds and 10 operating theatres.
Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City, Bengaluru, is a conglomeration of hospitals in one campus. The Health City intends to cater to about 15,000 outpatients every day. Along with the world’s largest heart hospital with 1000 beds performing over 30 major heart surgeries a day, a full-fledged 1400-bedded Multi Specialty hospital that handles Neurosurgery, Neurology, Paediatric, Nephrology, Urology, Gynaecology, Gastroenterology, ENT cases amongst various others. Narayana Hrudayalaya in association with Mrs. Kiran Mazumdar Shaw of Biocon has launched the World’s largest cancer hospital with the latest infrastructure and equipments, internationally acclaimed faculty and affiliations with global centers of excellence in cancer care. The state-of-the-art Cancer Center, is established to provide comprehensive and dedicated cancer care of the highest international standards with 20 Operation Theaters and 3 Elekta Linear Accelerators & Brachy Therapy, IMRT, IGRI & VMAT. To round up the Health City are Narayana Nethralaya – a super specialty eye hospital with an infrastructure to perform 500 eye surgeries daily and SPARSH - an orthopaedic super specialty hospital.
The Narayana Hrudayalaya Health City in Bengaluru is an academic institution in the process of becoming a university.
Dr Devi Shetty is originally from the erstwhile Kinnigoli, South Canara district in India (now divided into Dakshina Kannada and Udupi Districts of Karnataka). After completing his graduate degree in Medicine and post-graduate work in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, he trained in cardiac surgery at Guys Hospital in the United Kingdom. He returned to India in 1989 and initially worked at B.M. Birla Hospital in Kolkata. After some time, he moved to Bengaluru and started the Manipal Heart Foundation at Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru. He has many patients and admirers in Bangladesh, Pakistan, Srilanka and other parts of the world, especially in South Asia.
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