Case Study

Asia Heart Foundation embarked on the Telemedicine journey in April 2001. What began as a slow trickle of patients who wanted to seek Dr. Devi Shetty’s opinion soon turned into a virtual OPD with him seeing 20 patients on certain days, sitting thousands of miles away at Narayana Hrudayalaya, Bangalore.

Our mission at Asia Heart Foundation is to delivery quality and affordable healthcare to people at their doorsteps. The objective was to especially reach out to those deprived people, who live in remote areas with a deficiency in cardiac care, create Coronary Care Units and treat them from specialist ends at Kolkata and Bangalore, should they suffer from any kind of heart ailments.

Time plays a critical role in the outcome of the treatment of a heart patient. Valuable lives can be saved if the patient is treated within the shortest time possible. Some of the patients are so economically weak that traveling to a specialist centre is a remote prospect.