Dr. B. Bhaskar Rao

About Doctor DR. B. BHASKAR RAO

• Dr. B. Bhaskar Rao is a Senior Consultant- Cardio thoracic & Vascular Surgeon and he  has  performed over 30000 surgeries in his career spanning over last 25 years.
• He is working as a  Senior Consultant  in Cardiothoracic & Vascular Surgeon at KIMS
  Hospital,Hyderabad
• His  specialization includes cardiology,thoracic and vascular surgeon
• His  thrust and quest is to make medical facilities available to as many people as possible.
• He is well known in the medical fraternity for his passion towards his profession.
• He started his entrepreneurial journey at "Mahavir Cardio Vascular Centre" in Hyderabad with 50 beds and performed heart surgeries at an unimaginable low cost of just Rs. 45,000 only. He never turned away any patient from the hospital for want of money.
• He is a legend in cardiology and he is one of the very few Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons in the country.
•  After completing studies from India and abroad, he started his career in 1990 before turning into a healthcare entrepreneur in 2000. 
• He is the brand "Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences" began its journey in 2004 with a 300 bed hospital on par with the then established hospitals of Hyderabad in professional excellence, the state of art technology and infrastructure facilities.
• With 1000-bed KIMS Secunderabad, an ISO 9001-2000 recognized institution, is today's South-India's largest healthcare facility under one-roof. This institution has been accredited by NABL, NABH.
• He was instrumental in formulating Rajiv Gandhi Aarogyasri scheme, first time launched in Andhra Pradesh in 2007 for providing health care to the poorest of the poor.
•  This prestigious scheme has won him accolades from all quarters of the country and the world. He was the chief architect of Aarogyashri scheme for both creating it and implementing it successfully.
•  This well formulated scheme has become so popular that the other States in India have emulated it time and again; and operate similar schemes across the country even today.
• Mahaveer Cardio Vascular Centre was conceived, designed and established by him in 1996 with a major thrust on providing high quality care at nominal cost. The Cardio Vascular centre deals with Tertiary care referrals within the reach of a common man who cannot afford expensive treatment.
• He has armed with the experience of setting up a Subspecialty Center, he established at 150 bedded multispecialty Hospital in Nellore, a small town in the State of Andhra Pradesh located about 75 miles from Chennai. Bollineni Hospital is now a major referral center for all Basic Specialities & Subspeciaities in and around Nellore.

• He was recently awarded at the Times Healthcare Achievers Award 2017 with The Lifetime Achiever of the Year in Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery.
• He has won him accolades from all quarters of the country and the world. He was the chief architect of Aarogyashri scheme for both creating it and implementing it successfully.