Live healthy and long
Repost from Sociovigil.in | January 3, 2013
Dr. Devi Passad Shetty who has done 15,000 heart surgeries, a cardiac surgeon and philantropist has been named the Henry Ford of heart surgery by the Wall St. Journal, the Indian of the Year by CNN, and Phadna Bhusna award for medicine.
The cornerstone of his philantropy are:
1. economies of scale
2. the micro health insurance Yeshawini. For only 10 rupees a month, this micro insurance was launched for the farmers of Kamataka. It is the cheapest health insurance scheme and benefitted 85,000 farmers from the free medical treatment.
3. The health city: Narayana Hrudayalaya a multi specialty hospital in one campus: with cancer, heart, neurological, children's hospital, general hospital. 5000 bed hospital employing economies of scale.5,500 beds in l4 hospitals located in 11 cities. Patients are come in not only from India but from neighboring countries of Pakistan, Bangladesh . There will be 6 new hospitals to be opened before the end of 2013 operating under the same business model: quality care at low cost,
NH one of the innovative companies: Walmart of healthcare
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