11 Facts About Devi Shetty

Devi Prasad Shetty was born on 8 May 1953 and is an Indian cardiac surgeon who is the chairman and founder of Narayana Health, a chain of 24 medical centers in India.

Devi Shetty completed his MBBS in 1979, and post-graduate work in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore.

Devi Shetty successfully performed the first neonatal heart surgery in the country in 1992, on a 21-day-old baby Ronnie.

In 2001, Devi Shetty founded Narayana Hrudayalaya, a multi-specialty hospital in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore.

Devi Shetty founded Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences in Kolkata, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka Government to build 5,000-bed specialty hospital near Bangalore International Airport.

Devi Shetty's company signed a MOU with the Government of Gujarat, to set up a 5,000-bed hospital at Ahmedabad.

Devi Shetty aims for his hospitals to use economies of scale, to allow them to complete heart surgeries at a lower cost than in the United States.

Devi Shetty aims to trim costs with such measures as buying cheaper scrubs and using cross ventilation instead of air conditioning.

Devi Shetty has eliminated many pre-ops testing and innovated in patient care such as "drafting and training patients' family members to administer after-surgical care".

Devi Shetty's hospitals provide substantial free care especially for poor children.

Devi Shetty was appointed as chairman of the COVID-19 task force in Karnataka which was criticized by global health doctors as being a cardiac surgeon, he did not have the epidemiological approach to COVID-19 management.