Bangalore hospital reveals roadmap to better cardiac care |
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yderabad, February 7 -- Patients who need cardiac [pertaining to the heart.] care have a reason to rejoice. When the plans of the Bangalore-based hospital Narayana Hrudayalaya mature, affordable cardiac care would be more accessible to the masses.
Narayana Hrudayalaya has earmarked an amount of Rs 1,000 crores to be invested in the next five years in health cities. The ambitious plans include setting up more than 30,000 beds across the length and breadth of the country.
As part of its plan to go global, the heath care hospital intends to set up a health city in Mexico, Malaysia and Indonesia by forming an alliance with local players.
Health cities
The expansion plans were divulged by the chairman of the hospital, Devi Prasad Shetty. The declarations came at the launch of the 500-bed Narayana Hrudayalaya Malla Reddy Hospital in Hyderabad.
The hospital intends to set up health cities in Jaipur, Ahmedabad, Jamshedpur, Bhubaneswar and Kolkata. Each 500-bed hospital would incur an expenditure of Rs 200 crores, noted Shetty.
Artificial heart surgeries
The hospital chain is credited with executing the highest number of cardiac [pertaining to the heart.] surgeries each day.
The endeavor of the hospital, which has effectively performed ten artificial heart surgeries in the country, is to bring down the costs of artificial heart implantation.
The first surgery involving an artificial heart that run on batteries cost about Rs 50 lakh. Currently, such a surgery would cost anywhere close to Rs 30 lakh. “It will come down further,” averred Shetty.
Heart vaccine
Through its research arm Thrombus Research Centre (TRT), the hospital chain is also developing a vaccine to put off heart attacks.
For the purpose of analysis, TRT has already collected samples from 12,000 families wherein deaths have occurred due to heart attacks before the age of 55 years.
“It will take eight to ten years for some tangible results to come for the vaccine,” Shetty noted.
The research being undertaken by TRT is being funded by Tata Trust, Western Foundation and Dixons of UK.
JP Morgan and Biocon’s chairman Kiran Mazumdar Shaw are the equity partners in the group which aims to become the world’s largest heart care provider.
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