Some interesting facts about the Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences :
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences was created by Bhagwan Sai Baba
This hospital is a super- specialty hospital located at Whitefield, Bangalore in India.
The hospital is situated on a sprawling 53-acre complex with a built up area of 3,54,000 sq feet, houses 333 beds, eight operation theatres, six intensive care units, two cardiac care labs and a 24-hour emergency unit.
It offers free heart surgeries to people from all over the world
This hospital provides high quality medical care at zero cost to all people irrespective of caste, creed, religion and financial status.
A large number of patients, young and old, rich and poor, get their heart problems treated free of cost
The list of patients is endless and the hospital is proud of their waiting list.
Till date the hospital has conducted approx 400000 surgeries
There is no billing counter at this hospital
This hospital is made of spiritual environment and the patient is recognized as human being and not a diseased entity.
The doctors in this hospital meet each and every patient and evaluate their conditions and then they are taken up for the treatment depending upon their urgency.
The hospital is equipped with a fully automated information system which takes care of the patient data. Beside this the hospital also maintains a manual record of the data as back up.
The hospital uses the best possible resource optimization techniques. For example, no one waste papers. It is compulsory for anyone using a note to use both sides of it and not throw it away after writing on only one side. This helps in cutting a lot of costs.
The hospital is able to dispense free medical treatment to so many patients free of cost because of various philanthropists and devotees of Sathya Sai Baba. These various philanthropists and devotees of Sathya Sai Baba gives a lot of donation to Sri Sathya Sai Medical Trust which in turn gives money to Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences.