Asian Heart Institute
| Asian Heart Institute and Research Center | |
|---|---|
| Asian Hospitals | |
| File:Logo of Asian Heart Institute.jpg | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India |
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| Organisation | |
| Funding | Private |
| Hospital type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Standards | Cleveland Clinic, U.S.A. |
| Beds | 250 |
| Speciality | Cardiac |
| Links | |
| Website | http://www.asianheartinstitute.org/ |
Asian Heart Institute (AHI), is an Indian cardiac care hospital, established in 2002, located in the western suburb of Bandra, at the Bandra-Kurla Complex (BKC), in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
Dr.Ramakanta Panda is the Chief Consultant for Cardiovascular Thoracic Surgery and the Vice Chairman and Managing Director.
As of July 2012, it was one of the two private hospitals in India to participate in a government insurance scheme to provide coverage for the poor.[1]
The hospital added a sports medicine facility in 2007 as a number of hospitals across the country expanded their services in that practice area prior to the 2010 Commonwealth Games.[2]
In April 2013, AHI committed to providing free heart surgery for 100 economically-weak children who have congenital heart disease, through its Pediatric Cardiac Center, to help clear up the government-operated KEM Hospital's waiting list, which had grown so long that some infants and children had been waiting for surgery for over three years. 11 children have been operated as of 31 May 2013. Dr Panda has committed to operating 1000 children, who, because of their financial situation, would otherwise have had no recourse to top-quality cardiac surgery.[3][4]
In 2011, the suicide of a nurse who worked at Asian Heart Institute lead to a series of nursing strikes across the city related to wages, working conditions and the 2 year bond that private hospitals hold on nurses' graduation certificates.[5][6]
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