Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is an Indian cardiac surgeon and entrepreneur. He is the founder Chairman and Executive Director of Narayana Health, a chain of 21 medical centres in India. He has performed more than 15,000 heart surgeries. In 2001, he founded Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH), a multi-speciality hospital in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore. He believes that the cost of healtheare can be reduced by 50 per cent if hospitals adopt the idea of economies of scale.

HIS Contribution to Healthcare Landscape in India ;

Narayana Hrudayalaya (Heart Hospital), founded by Dr Shetty is the largest in the world with 1000 beds performing over 30 major heart surgeries a day. From a 300-bed hospital in 2001 at Bommasandra, in Bangalore, NH today, is a 6,000-bed healthcare conglomerate, with 17 hospitals in 13 locations across India. Now, it has become a 30,000-bed healthcare provider with a global presence.

Change-Making Positions Held ;

* He initiated the concept of the 'Micro Health Insurance Scheme in Karnataka.

* His company signed an MoU with the Government of Gujarat, to set up a 5,000-bed hospital in Ahmedabad.

# Dr Shetty was a part of the seven-member panel of the Board of Governors that

replaced the MCI and served for one year before it got reconstituted.

Laurels Brought to Dr Devi P. Shetty ;

* The Government of India conferred him Padma Shri in 2003 and Padma Bhushan in 2012.

* 'Rajyotsava Award' in 2002 conferred by the Government of Karnataka.

* Dr B. C. Roy National Award under the category of 'Eminent Medical Person' in 2003.

* 'Entrepreneur of the Year Award - Start-up 2003' by Ernst & Young, India.

* 'The President's Award' by the American College of Cardiology in 2011.

* 'Economic Times Entrepreneur of the Year' in 2012.

* 'Indian of the Year Award' in 2012 by CNN- IBN.

* Awarded the Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by the Rajiv Gandhi University in 2014.

Impact Brought in the Lives of Common Indians ;

Dr Shetty is one clinician working on the most common challenges gripping the Indian healthcare industry.