Bollineni Bhaskar Rao MBBS, MS, DNB

Dr. Bollineni Bhaskar Rao is one of the very few Cardio-Thoracic Surgeons in the country, who performed over 30000 surgeries in his career spanning over the last 25 years. After completing studies from India and abroad, Dr. Bhaskar Rao started his career in 1990 before turning into a healthcare entrepreneur in 2000. Dr. Bhaskar Rao's thirst, thrust, and quest is to make medical facilities available to as many people as possible. Well known in the medical fraternity for his passion for his profession, Dr. Rao started his entrepreneurial journey at "Mahavir Cardio Vascular Centre" in Hyderabad with 50 beds and performed heart surgeries at an unimaginably low cost of just Rs. 45,000 only. Dr. Rao never turned away any patient from the hospital for want of money. The brand "Krishna Institute of Medical Sciences", under Dr. Bhaskar Rao’s aegis 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 the 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.

Dr. Bhaskar Rao was instrumental in formulating the 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 the 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 CardioVascular center deals with Tertiary care referrals within the reach of a common man who cannot afford expensive treatment. He was recently awarded the Times Healthcare Achievers Award 2017 with The Lifetime Achiever of the Year in Cardiology & Cardiothoracic Surgery.