On the occasion of World Heart Day, we are featuring one of the best cardiac surgeons who hails from Mangalore, Devi Shetty. He was born in Kinnigoli, Mangalore. He graduated from Kasturba Medical College in Mangalore with a bachelor’s degree in medicine and a master’s degree in general surgery in 1982. From 1983 to 1989, he moved to Guys Hospital in the United Kingdom for training and practise, after finishing his studies. Finally, he went to India and began working at the B.M. Birla Hospital in Kolkata for a short time before moving to Bangalore and establishing the Manipal Heart Foundation at Manipal Hospital. Patients travel from Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Nepal, Pakistan, and other parts of the world, particularly South Asia, to see him.
Devi Prasad Shetty, often known as “the Henry Ford of heart care” and “the King of Hearts,” is an Indian cardiac surgeon who performs the exceedingly dangerous, difficult, and dynamic cardiomyoplasty procedure. In India, he was the first to conduct neo-natal open heart surgery. Dr. Shetty is also the first surgeon in the world to use a microchip camera to close a hole in the heart; the first person to undertake the first ever surgery using the stomach blood vessels to bypass blocked heart arteries; and the first person in India to implant an artificial heart.Throughout his career, he has garnered numerous medals and distinctions, but it is his pure and loving heart that distinguishes him.
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