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A MODEL OF LOW COST HEART SURGERY IN INDIA

In India, heart disease has overtaken communicable diseases as the primary killer, but the poor still have limited access to the specialist health care that can save their lives. Until now, that is.

Devi Shetty‘s company, Narayana Hrudayalaya, has created a new program to build low-cost hospitals that can provide health care to the poor. Rosalind Miller reports in the Guardian‘s Global Development column: