{
 "schema": 1,
 "id": "devi-shetty",
 "type": "person",
 "names": {
  "name": "Devi Prasad Shetty",
  "aliases": [
   "Devi Shetty",
   "Dr Devi Prasad Shetty"
  ],
  "said": "A cardiac surgeon who argues about cost the way an industrial engineer does, and who says so in public more often than most surgeons say anything."
 },
 "region": [
  "south-asia",
  "caribbean"
 ],
 "facets": {
  "role": [
   "surgeon",
   "founder"
  ],
  "iso2": "IN"
 },
 "text": {
  "what": "Cardiac surgeon, and founder and chairman of Narayana Health, the Bengaluru hospital group built on operating volume and low unit cost. The Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur's own convocation profile states it plainly: \"Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is the Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health.\" He is the person most often quoted on the proposition that heart surgery gets cheaper by being done more often, which is the argument underneath a large part of this directory.",
  "story": "The peer-reviewed profile of him in Cureus in 2024 gives the life: born on 8 May 1953 in Kinnigoli, Karnataka; MBBS from Kasturba Medical College, Mangalore, in 1979; cardiothoracic training at Guy's Hospital in London. IIT Kanpur's profile instead records an MBBS from the University of Mysore in 1978 and a master's in surgery there in 1982, with a fellowship of the Royal College of Surgeons of England in 2009. The institutions are reconcilable — the Mangalore college was affiliated to that university — and the years are not; both are reported here and neither is preferred.\n\nNarayana Hrudayalaya was founded in 2000. The Cureus profile describes the cardiac hospital as one of the largest in the world with a thousand beds, performing more than thirty major heart operations a day. The same paper records Yeshasvini, the farmers' insurance scheme he built with the Karnataka state government, launched in 2003 \"at a nominal premium of 5-7 Indian Rupees\" a month — a domestic financing experiment that has nothing to do with foreign patients and explains more about the group's economics than the export trade does.\n\nHealth City Cayman Islands, a member of the Narayana network, opened in 2014, and states on its own pages that it is \"the first hospital in the Caribbean and one of only six organisations globally to receive the prestigious Joint Commission International (JCI) Enterprise Accreditation\". *Inference —* an Indian group building a hospital an hour from Miami is the clearest single statement in this field about where the customers are; the hospital's own page does not put it that way, and no quotation from him saying so was found for this record.\n\nThe Government of India conferred the Padma Shri in 2004 and the Padma Bhushan in 2012, as recorded in the Cureus profile.",
  "notes": "The career operation total widely attached to him traces to a magazine article and was not verified in a first-party or peer-reviewed source; it is not carried here."
 },
 "kin": [
  {
   "to": "narayana-health",
   "as": "The group he founded, and the record carrying its volume argument and its 2013 bypass figure.",
   "rel": "facility"
  },
  {
   "to": "bengaluru",
   "as": "Where the first hospital was built, on the southern edge of the city.",
   "rel": "hub"
  },
  {
   "to": "cabg",
   "as": "The operation his cost argument was made about.",
   "rel": "procedure"
  },
  {
   "to": "india",
   "as": "The country whose low-cost cardiac surgery he is the public face of.",
   "rel": "destination"
  },
  {
   "to": "prathap-reddy",
   "as": "The earlier founder, who made the corporate hospital a category before this argument could be made inside one.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "is-it-cheaper",
   "as": "Volume against price, which is his claim and this site's question.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "links": [
  {
   "label": "IIT Kanpur — convocation profile",
   "url": "https://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/convocation/data/Profile-Dr.-Devi-Prasad-Shetty.pdf"
  },
  {
   "label": "Cureus 2024 profile",
   "url": "https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11530259/"
  }
 ],
 "sources": [
  "s:iitk-shetty-profile",
  "s:cureus-devi-shetty",
  "s:hcci-about-archived",
  "s:wp-devi-shetty",
  "s:wp-narayana-health-2"
 ],
 "provenance": {
  "default": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:iitk-shetty-profile"
  },
  "fields": {
   "text.story": {
    "tier": "cited",
    "source": "s:cureus-devi-shetty",
    "note": "the biography, the founding year, the bed and throughput figures, the Yeshasvini premium and the two Padma years are from the Cureus profile; the qualification conflict is between that paper and the IIT Kanpur profile; the Cayman sentence is quoted from an archived capture of the hospital's own page and the paragraph's closing reading is marked inference"
   }
  }
 },
 "needs_verification": true,
 "confidence": "medium",
 "updated": "2026-09-17",
 "blurb": "Cardiac surgeon, and founder and chairman of Narayana Health, the Bengaluru hospital group built on operating volume and low unit cost.",
 "region_terms": [
  {
   "key": "south-asia",
   "name": "South Asia",
   "note": "India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal"
  },
  {
   "key": "caribbean",
   "name": "The Caribbean",
   "note": "the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Barbados, the Caymans"
  }
 ],
 "kin_out": [
  {
   "to": "narayana-health",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Narayana Health",
   "as": "The group he founded, and the record carrying its volume argument and its 2013 bypass figure.",
   "rel": "facility"
  },
  {
   "to": "bengaluru",
   "type": "hub",
   "name": "Bengaluru",
   "as": "Where the first hospital was built, on the southern edge of the city.",
   "rel": "hub"
  },
  {
   "to": "cabg",
   "type": "procedure",
   "name": "Coronary artery bypass grafting",
   "as": "The operation his cost argument was made about.",
   "rel": "procedure"
  },
  {
   "to": "india",
   "type": "destination",
   "name": "India",
   "as": "The country whose low-cost cardiac surgery he is the public face of.",
   "rel": "destination"
  },
  {
   "to": "prathap-reddy",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Prathap C. Reddy",
   "as": "The earlier founder, who made the corporate hospital a category before this argument could be made inside one.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  },
  {
   "to": "is-it-cheaper",
   "type": "story",
   "name": "Is it cheaper",
   "as": "Volume against price, which is his claim and this site's question.",
   "rel": "story"
  }
 ],
 "source_list": [
  {
   "id": "s:iitk-shetty-profile",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Profile — Dr Devi Prasad Shetty (convocation)",
   "publisher": "Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Dean of Academic Affairs",
   "url": "https://www.iitk.ac.in/doaa/convocation/data/Profile-Dr.-Devi-Prasad-Shetty.pdf",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17",
   "note": "'Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is the Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health'; MBBS University of Mysore 1978, MS 1982, FRCS England 2009; the Yeshaswini scheme with the Government of Karnataka; awards listed without years"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:cureus-devi-shetty",
   "kind": "journal",
   "title": "Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty: The Visionary Cardiothoracic Surgeon Who Championed Affordable Healthcare",
   "publisher": "Cureus, 2024;16(10):e70683",
   "url": "https://doi.org/10.7759/cureus.70683",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "Jayakumar D, Bansal A, Albano JE, Mirhan JLG. Open access, CC BY 4.0; full text at Europe PMC, PMC11530259"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:hcci-about-archived",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "About Us — Health City Cayman Islands (archived capture, 13 December 2025)",
   "publisher": "Health City Cayman Islands, via the Internet Archive",
   "url": "http://web.archive.org/web/20251213104822/https://healthcitycaymanislands.com/about-us/",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17",
   "note": "the hospital opened in 2014 and describes itself as a member of the Narayana Health network and 'the first hospital in the Caribbean and one of only six organisations globally to receive the prestigious Joint Commission International (JCI) Enterprise Accreditation'; the live site refuses automated requests and the Internet Archive could not be reached from this machine, so this entry rests on a capture read during research rather than on a fetch made for the record"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-devi-shetty",
   "kind": "web",
   "title": "Devi Shetty",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devi_Shetty",
   "accessed": "2026-09-16",
   "note": "carries the Bloomberg 2013 bypass figure of 95,000 rupees and the Cleveland Clinic comparison"
  },
  {
   "id": "s:wp-narayana-health-2",
   "kind": "wikipedia",
   "title": "Narayana Health",
   "publisher": "Wikipedia",
   "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narayana_Health",
   "license": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
   "accessed": "2026-09-17"
  }
 ],
 "tiers": {
  "text.what": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:iitk-shetty-profile"
  },
  "text.story": {
   "tier": "cited",
   "source": "s:cureus-devi-shetty",
   "note": "the biography, the founding year, the bed and throughput figures, the Yeshasvini premium and the two Padma years are from the Cureus profile; the qualification conflict is between that paper and the IIT Kanpur profile; the Cayman sentence is quoted from an archived capture of the hospital's own page and the paragraph's closing reading is marked inference"
  }
 },
 "primary_image": null,
 "tag_facts": [],
 "recognition_facts": [],
 "acclaim": 0,
 "kin_in": [
  {
   "from": "bengaluru",
   "type": "hub",
   "name": "Bengaluru",
   "as": "The cardiac surgeon who put a 280-bed heart hospital at the edge of this city in 2000.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "from": "narayana-health",
   "type": "facility",
   "name": "Narayana Health",
   "as": "Its founder and the author of the volume argument.",
   "rel": "person"
  },
  {
   "from": "prathap-reddy",
   "type": "person",
   "name": "Prathap C. Reddy",
   "as": "The other founder-surgeon in Indian corporate medicine, working the volume end of the same market.",
   "rel": "contrast"
  }
 ]
}