Narayana Hrudayalaya
| Narayana Health (previously Narayana Hrudayalaya) | |
|---|---|
| Narayana Health Group of Hospitals | |
| Organisation | |
| Type | Chain of multi-speciality hospitals with tertiary care facilities |
| Services | |
| Standards | NABH, JCI |
| Emergency department | 24/7 |
| Beds | 6300 across 23 hospitals in 14 cities |
| History | |
| Opened | 2000 |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.narayanahealth.org |
Narayana Health (Template:Lang-kn), headquartered in the city of Bengaluru, India, a multi-specialty hospital chain in India.[1] The Bangalore cardiac unit of Narayana Health is one of the world's largest heart hospitals.[2][3][4] It is the brainchild of cardiac surgeon, Devi Shetty. Narayana Health also receives patients from outside India, and it has created a record of performing nearly 15,000 surgeries on patients from 25 foreign countries.[5] It is also a renowned centre for telemedicine and it offers this service free of cost.[6]
It has 6,300 beds (as of November 2013) and it is building large hospitals across India aiming for 30,000 beds, to enable it to gain large economies of scale and bargain down the cost of supplies to the hospitals.
History
Narayana Health was started in the year 2000 by Dr. Devi Shetty under the aegis of the Asian Heart Foundation (AHF). The flagship hospitals of the group are located in the cities of Bangalore (now Bengaluru) and Kolkata. They are both multi-specialty hospitals which cater to a wide variety of illnesses and diseases.
Health City
Narayana Health 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 Bangalore (now Bengaluru). Financial contribution for the construction of the hospital was provided by Dr. Shetty's father-in-law.[7] Spread over 25 acres (100,000 m2), it is located in the Bommasandra Industrial Area on Hosur Road in Bengaluru. Today, NH Health City consists of a 1000 bed cardiac hospital and a 1400 bed multi-speciality hospital, which has one of Asia's most advanced Cancer Care facility and India's largest Bone Marrow Transplant Unit. [7][8]
NH Health City, Bangalore, is a conglomeration of hospitals in one campus. Along with the world’s largest heart hospital with 1,000 beds performing over 30 major heart surgeries a day, a full-fledged 1,400-bed hospital that handles neurosurgery, neurology, pediatrics, nephrology, urology, gynecology, gastroenterology and ear-nose-throat cases. Narayana Health 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, three Elekta linear accelerators, brachytherapy, IMRT, IGRI & VMAT.
Dr Devi Shetty is originally from 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 Bangalore and started the Manipal Heart Foundation at Manipal Hospital, Bengaluru.
Services
Apart from cardiology, the hospital also offers treatments in the area of Neurosurgery, Pediatrics, Neurology, Gastroenterology, General Surgery, Dental, Nephrology, Urology, Transplants, Nuclear Medicine, Medical Imaging and Radiology. It also houses a Blood bank and Laboratory. With the help of ISRO, Narayana Health has pioneered some of the aspects of Telemedicine.[9]
Cardiac Care
Narayana Health performs approximately 24 open heart surgeries and 35 catheterization procedures a day, almost eight times the average at other Indian hospitals.[7] In cardiology, the hospital specialises in Interventional Cardiology, Electrophysiology and Pediatric Cardiology, and also performs cardiac surgeries like Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting (CABG), Redo Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting, the Dor procedure and the Ross procedure.[10] A total of 15,000 coronary bypass grafting operations have been performed in the Bengaluru hospital alone.[10]The hospital also acts as a philanthropist by charging less than the normal cost for procedures like angiogram and cardiac surgery to people who cannot afford to pay the huge costs.[11] Narayana Hrudayalaya also has 17 Coronary Care units which are based in remote cardiac hospitals but are linked to Narayana Hrudayalaya.[6] These units handle emergency cardiac-related cases and the patients are controlled and stabilised before the cardiac specialists are consulted. The hospital also runs postgraduate programs for doctors and other medical staff on heartcare and also offers India's only formal training program for pediatric cardiac surgery.[7]
Neurosciences
The Institute of Neurosciences, under the leadership of Dr Thimappa Hegde, consists of the departments of Neurosurgery, Neurology, Interventional Neurology, Psychiatry and Neuro-Rehabilitation. The centre is one of the largest tertiary care centres for Neurosciences in India, treating both common and rare forms of neurological disorders like epilepsy, stroke, brain tumours, congenital neurological malformations, spine disorders, neurovascular disorders, complex pain syndromes, degenerative disorders of the brain and spine. Head injuries and spinal trauma are also treated by the Neurosurgery team in association with trauma specialists. The center is involved in regular academic activities and discussions to bring the advantage of latest knowledge base and evidence based medicine to the patients. The Neurosurgery team consists of a large team of hardworking, efficient and caring surgeons ensuring an individual and detailed attention to every patient. This allows focus of every minor complains of the patient which can go a long way in bringing about a good final result including physical as well as psychological well-being of the patient and his or her family. An experienced team of intensivists, residents and nursing staff and state of the art monitoring devices ensure round the clock supervision of critically ill patients as well as facility to operate on all neurological emergencies at short notice, which often makes the difference between life and death. Besides Karnataka and Tamil Nadu, patients come from other states and countries like as Bangladesh, West Asia, Africa, Europe and South-east Asia for affordable and quality Neurosurgical care that is at par with the best centres of the world. There is also an observership opportunity for Indian and foreign doctors from both developed and developing nations to observe and learn the efficient ways in which patient care is done from admission to surgery to rehabilitation. Some of the cases they see are rare and an opportunity of a lifetime, that go a long way in giving them confidence when they go back to practice in their homelands.
Tele-medicine
The telemedicine service was started in the hospital in the year 2002 to cater mainly to the rural populace in the country.[6] The telemedicine network of the hospital connects to countries like Malaysia, Mauritius and Pakistan; with most of the cases referred through telemedicine being cardiac ones. ECG reports, Audio/Visual data, CT scans, X-rays, MRIs and their analysis are exchanged via the telephone line, broadband connection or satellite. The hospital uses a telemedicine ECG machine manufactured by Schiller India, a Germany-based company. The telemedicine services provided by the hospital are free and more than 21000 cases have been referred using this service.[6] Narayana Health is also a part of "The Karnataka Telemedine Project" which was inaugurated on April 8, 2002 and links two rural hospitals in Saragur, Karnataka viz. the Chamarajnagar District Hospital and the Vivekananda Memorial Hospital with the Narayana Hrudayalaya.[12]
See also
External links
Notes
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- ^ "About Us". Online Webpage of the Narayana Health. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ Devi Shetty. "Narayana Health (previously Narayana Hrudayalaya)". Online webpage of Electronics and Information technology Exposition.
- ^ G. Ananthakrishnan (2006-04-30). "Boom time for medicare". Online Edition of The Hindu, dated 2006-04-30. Chennai, India: The Hindu. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ a b c d Nayantara Som. "A Whole New World". Online Webpage of the Express Healthcare Management. Indian Express Newspapers (Mumbai) Limited. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ a b c d "Devi P. Shetty, Narayana Hrudayalaya Institute of Medical Sciences". Online Webpage of the Schwab Foundation. Archived from the original on 2007-09-27. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ "Narayana Health, Bengaluru". Online Webpage of Narayana Health. Archived from the original on 2007-06-03. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ "Centers of Excellence". Online webpage of Narayana Health. Archived from the original on 2007-05-07. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ a b "Cardiac Surgery". Online webpage of Narayana Hrudayalaya. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ Walter Nandalike. "Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty - An Interview". Online webpage of Daijiworld.com. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
- ^ T. S. Subramanian. "Telemedicine thrust". Online webpage of the Frontline, Volume 20 - Issue 16, August 2–15, 2003. The Hindu. Retrieved 2007-06-13.
