Asian Heart Institute

Asian Heart Institute and Research Center
Asian Hospitals
Geography
Location Bandra Kurla Complex, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Coordinates 19°03′54″N 72°51′36″E / 19.065°N 72.860°E / 19.065; 72.860Coordinates: 19°03′54″N 72°51′36″E / 19.065°N 72.860°E / 19.065; 72.860
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]


References

  1. ↑ "Govt scheme helps poor get treated for major ailments - Hindustan Times". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  2. ↑ "Hospitals see business in fitness boom’s injured - Livemint". Mint. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  3. ↑ Lata Mishra (3 April 2013). "Res-queued". Mumbai Mirror. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  4. ↑ Dr. Ramakanta Panda speaks about the pediatric surgeries performed at AHI. YouTube (2013-04-17). Retrieved on 2013-12-06.
  5. ↑ "Nurses discontented with poor pay, bond system - Hindustan Times". Retrieved 25 April 2013.
  6. ↑ Priyanka Vora (2011-10-20). "250 nurses go on strike over bond, harassment". Mid Day. Retrieved 25 April 2013.
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