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Eighty percent of Dr Ramakanta Panda's young cardiac patients — below 35, below 40 — work in IT or finance. Late nights, processed food, 2 AM pizza, secondhand smoke, and a generation that doesn't sleep before midnight. The Padma Bhushan awardee and Chairman of Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai has performed over 30,000 cardiac surgeries with a 99.8% bypass success rate and zero MRSA in his ICU — all from one hospital he has refused to franchise, refused to debt-finance, and refused to sell to private equity. Every week, he says no. In this episode of The Morning Brief, ET's pharma editor Vikas Dandekar and Rica Bhattacharyya sit down with Dr. Panda on why India cannot fix its healthcare issues  by solely relying on private healthcare — and whether one hospital built on culture can set standards an industry built on capital never will.

You can follow Vikas Dandekar on his social media: X or Linkedin and Rica Bhattacharyya on her X and Linkedin

Check out other interesting episodes like:ET Deep Dive: Swipe Left on Reality,India wants manufacturing at 25% of GDP — will AI in factories help?, Tanay Kothari Wants To Kill The Keyboard,From Doer to Director: The LinkedIn Playbook for the AI Agea, Semaglutide Goes Generic: Big Pharma’s Moat Breaks  and much more.

 

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Eighty percent of Dr Ramakanta Panda's young cardiac patients &mdash; below 35, below 40 &mdash; work in IT or finance. Late nights, processed food, 2 AM pizza, secondhand smoke, and a generation that doesn't sleep before midnight. The Padma Bhushan awardee and Chairman of Asian Heart Institute, Mumbai has performed over 30,000 cardiac surgeries with a 99.8% bypass success rate and zero MRSA in his ICU &mdash; all from one hospital he has refused to franchise, refused to debt-finance, and refused to sell to private equity. Every week, he says no. In this episode of The Morning Brief, ET's pharma editor Vikas Dandekar and Rica Bhattacharyya sit down with Dr. Panda on why India cannot fix its healthcare issues&nbsp; by solely relying on private healthcare &mdash; and whether one hospital built on culture can set standards an industry built on capital never will. You can follow Vikas Dandekar on his social media:&nbsp;<a href="https://twitter.com/VikasReports">X</a> or <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/vikas-dandekar-2a0a619">Linkedin</a> and Rica Bhattacharyya on her <a href="https://x.com/RicaB_ET">X</a> and <a href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/rica-bhattacharyya-72b24a11/">Linkedin </a>Check out other interesting episodes like:<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/et-deep-dive-swipe-left-on-reality/id1568661777?i=1000763614435&amp;l=te">ET Deep Dive: Swipe Left on Reality</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/india-wants-manufacturing-at-25-of-gdp-will-ai-in/id1568661777?i=1000760758322">India wants manufacturing at 25% of GDP &mdash; will AI in factories help?</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/tanay-kothari-wants-to-kill-the-keyboard/id1568661777?i=1000758892178">Tanay Kothari Wants To Kill The Keyboard</a>,<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000738205536"> </a><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/from-doer-to-director-the-linkedin-playbook-for-the-ai-age/id1568661777?i=1000756242616">From Doer to Director: The LinkedIn Playbook for the AI Agea</a>, <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777?i=1000756051799">Semaglutide Goes Generic: Big Pharma&rsquo;s Moat Breaks</a>&nbsp; and<a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/in/podcast/the-morning-brief/id1568661777"> much more</a>.
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