India’s large and diverse population warrants as efficient health care infrastructure, that should be accessible to all strata’s of society. Good quality health care should not only be a privilege of the elite. Since I set up Metro Hospitals in 1997, my vision and endeavor has been to bring state-of-the-art health care to the masses of India. In order to achieve this, we at the Metro Group of Hospitals, are committed to providing advanced medical care at a minimum cost. Our focus has always been on the patients of the lower and middle sections of society, patients who are rejected by the large corporate hospitals, patients who cannot afford expensive medical care, but more than deserve it as humans. I believe that medicine is a noble profession and that sick patients can never be rejected on monetary grounds. This belief is our main strength.

To help achieve this, I have an outstanding team of doctors in various specialties including cardiology, gastroenterology, nephrology, respiratory, oncology etc. All our senior doctors are former deans, professors or directors of reputed institutes. It is a matter of great pride that we, at Metro, have created a facility and an atmosphere of academic research like a mini AIIMS. This input and discussion between many scientific minds, greatly benefits our patients.

Our hospitals are equipped with the latest medical technologies. Each specialty is therefore able to provide the patient with an array of the state-of-the-art procedures and both invasive and non-invasive technologies. Now-a-days India is far ahead of other medically advanced countries in tense of interventional cardiology techniques. It has been my continuing effort to stress on preventive cardiac care, and to remove the fear of screening procedures like angiography from the minds of people. This is one of the reasons why we are spreading the Metro Heart & Multispeciality Hospitals to the peripheral, rural areas. This is why I have developed the ‘Metro Coronary Screening’ whereby an angiography can be done with the use of minimal dye from the elbow area. The procedure reduces the cost of an angiography and can be done on an out patient basis.

We believe in building relationships with patients. From spending time with them in order to understand and assess their medical issues to empathizing with them and guiding them about the current and most cost effective course of action. When a patient recovers, my happiest moments are when I send them home, and wish sincerely from the bottom of my heart, that they remain well and do not need to come back to the hospital!