Bangalore, May 08: Narayana Hrudayalaya, the Bangalore-based heart hospital, has embarked upon building a "health city" with a capacity of 2,000 beds in another one and half years. Narayana Hrudayalaya chairman Devi Shetty told reporters here today a 250 bed institute of neurosciences, equipped with state-of-the-art facilities, would be set up with an investment of Rs 250 crore, in the first phase.
He said the hospital had already acquired 20 acres, adjacent to the cardiac superspeciality hospital, to develop the health city. By this ambitious venture, it proposed to turn Bangalore city into the healthcare hub of the world.
The health city project would cater to orthopeadics and eyecare treatment, besides an additional 500 bed hospital for neurology and neurosurgical care, he said.
India, Shetty said, has about 25 lakh patients who are in need of heart operations, but every year only 60,000 operations are performed by hospitals across the country.
Bureau Report