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In 2004 he was awarded the Padma Shri, the fourth highest civilian award, followed by the Padma Bhushan in 2012, the third highest civilian award by the Government of India for his contribution to the field of affordable healthcare. ==Early life and education== Shetty was born at Kinnigoli, a village in Dakshina Kannada district of Karnataka in a Tulu speaking Bunt family. He was the eighth among nine children of his parents. He decided to become a heart surgeon when he was a school student after hearing about Christiaan Barnard, a South African surgeon who had just performed the world's first heart transplant. Shetty was educated at St. Aloysius High School in Mangalore. Thereafter, he completed his MBBS in 1979 and postgraduation in General Surgery from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore. Later, he completed FRCS from Royal College of Surgeons, England. He has also received an advanced cardiothoracic surgery training at Guy's Hospital in London. ==Career== He returned to India in 1989 and initially worked at B.M. Birla Hospital in Kolkata. He successfully performed the first neonatal heart surgery in the country in 1992, on a 21-day-old baby Ronnie. In Kolkata he operated on Mother Teresa after she had a heart attack, and subsequently served as her personal physician. In 2001, Shetty founded Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH), a multi-specialty hospital in Bommasandra on the outskirts of Bangalore. He believes that the cost of healthcare can be reduced by 50 percent in the next 5–10 years if hospitals adopt the idea of economies of scale. In August 2012 Shetty announced an agreement with TriMedx, a subsidiary of Ascension Health, to create a joint venture for a chain of hospitals. In the past Narayana Hrudayalaya has collaborated with Ascension Health to set up a health care city in the Cayman Islands, planned to eventually have 2,000 beds. Shetty also founded Rabindranath Tagore International Institute of Cardiac Sciences (RTIICS) in Kolkata, and signed a memorandum of understanding with the Karnataka Government to build 5,000-bed specialty hospital near Bangalore International Airport. His company signed a MOU with the Government of Gujarat, to set up a 5,000-bed hospital at Ahmedabad. ==Yeshasvini== Yeshasvini is a low-cost health insurance scheme, designed by Shetty and the Government of Karnataka for the poor farmers of the state, with 4 million people currently covered. ==Awards and recognition== Padma Bhushan Award for Medicine, in 2012 Karnataka Ratna Award, in 2001 Entrepreneur of the Year at ET awards, in 2012 2011 The Economist Innovation Award in Business Process Honorary degree, University of Minnesota, in 2011 Honorary degree, 'Honoris Causa' Degree of 'Doctor of Science' by Indian Institute of Technology Madras, in 2014 Schwab Foundation Award, in 2005 Padma Shri Award for Medicine, in 2004 Dr. B C Roy Award, in 2003 Sir M. Visvesvaraya Memorial Award, in 2003 Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur Of The Year – Life Sciences, in 2012 Ernst & Young, Entrepreneur of the Year – Start-up, in 2003 Rajyotsava Award, in 2002 Indian Of The Year (Public Sector) by CNN-IBN, in 2012 ==Television== Shetty stars in the fourth (and last) episode of Netflix's docuseries The Surgeon's Cut, which was released globally on 9 December 2020. The episode follows Shetty's treatment of patients, mostly children and babies, prioritizing low-cost and affordable healthcare while performing with his team more than thirty surgeries a day. ==See also== Narayana Health ==References== ==External links== Profile - Devi Prasad Shetty", "categories": [ "102574599", "102892958", "102978946", "10512023", "113148471", "125876068", "20515436", "21493616", "22918266", "22944706", "22986954", "23021339", "2330768", "23603337", "23617850", "24745122", "25043025", "26180579", "26220375", "28269683", "30215255", "35289740", "35329148", "37645845", "50588215", "53660704", "563239", "69984541", "71436713", "71441195", "71453828", "90318833", "9567816", "9620104" ], "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "source_uri": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376031660", "content_hash": "", "created_at": null, "updated_at": 1790000619.0, "claims": [ { "id": 30254865, "subject_qid": "", "subject_slug": "devi-shetty", "predicate": "date of birth", "object_text": "1953-05-08", "object_num": 19530508.0, "object_unit": null, "polarity": 1, "qualifier": "", "source_uri": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376031660", "source_name": "Wikipedia", "source_tier": 3, "retrieved_at": 1792490585.523317, "confidence": 0.95, "article_slug": "devi-shetty", "span_start": 20, "span_end": 64 }, { "id": 30254866, "subject_qid": "", "subject_slug": "devi-shetty", "predicate": "release date", "object_text": "2020-12-09", "object_num": 20201209.0, "object_unit": null, "polarity": 1, "qualifier": "", "source_uri": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376031660", "source_name": "Wikipedia", "source_tier": 3, "retrieved_at": 1792490585.5233178, "confidence": 0.95, "article_slug": "devi-shetty", "span_start": 362, "span_end": 399 } ], "contradictions": [], "confidence": 0.95, "csl": { "id": "enwiki-001376031660", "type": "webpage", "title": "Devi Shetty", "author": [ { "family": "Anticloud FZ LLE", "literal": "Anticloud FZ LLE" } ], "container-title": "encyclopegia.org", "publisher": "Anticloud FZ LLE", "publisher-place": "Dubai, United Arab Emirates", "URL": "https://encyclopegia.org/a/devi-shetty", "issued": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026, 11, 14 ] ] }, "accessed": { "date-parts": [ [ 2026, 11, 14 ] ] }, "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0", "DOI": "eo1:enwiki-001376031660", "isBasedOn": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1376031660", "note": "Immutable snapshot enwiki-001376031660" } }