By Josep Mª Monguet
On 25th February, the first building of the Health City hospital complex which plans to grow up to 2,000 beds and be accredited by the JCI, offer all kinds of advanced tertiary health services and even open their own university, was inaugurated in the Cayman Islands. But what really draws the attention towards all of this is the origin of the initiative, which is none other than innovation in the health business model from India. Between 2001 and 2012, Narayana Health, a project led by Dr. Devi Shetty evolved from a 300-bed hospital in Bangalore to an aggregate of 6,000 beds in 17 hospitals, 80,000 patients and 3,500 interventions per month. And now they have switched their antipodes to enter the global market, offering, via a one and a half hour flight from the United States, open-heart surgery, prosthesis or neurosurgery, for obviously very competitive prices.
