CARDIOVASCULAR INSTITUTE OF FORTIS HOSPITAL INDIA (FEHI)
Fortis Heart Center was opened in 1988. During this time they conducted:
- More than 173 000 coronary angiography;
- 22,70,000 consultations;
- 3,16,000 hospitalizations;
- 50 000 radioisotope scans of the heart;
- 18,020 surgeries of congenital heart disease;
- The first transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in India.
The Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI) received the JCI certificate in 2010 and was re-tested in 2013 and 2016.
In 2008, accredited with NABH, and in 2014 - received a repeated mark of quality.
In 2009, the Blood Bank of FEHI also won the certificate of the National Council for the Certification of Hospitals and Medical Institutions in India and successfully passed the second in 2015.
The Laboratory of the Center for Cardiovascular Diseases of the Fortis Network was accredited by the National Accreditation Council for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) in 2013.
Today the hospital is recognized throughout the world as an advanced Cardiology Center. Doctors practicing in Fortis are leading Indian specialists, holders of 4 honorary prizes of the Government of India.
Such number of international certificates and awards are the guarantee of obtaining effective medical care of the highest quality and safe of patients stay in the Fortis hospital.
The leading cardiologist of the Heart Center is Anil Saxena, a specialist with over 30 years of experience. Anil Saxena was the first in India to start installing biventricular pacemakers (with left and right ventricular dysfunction).
Also engaged in electrophysiological studies and radiofrequency catheter ablation for diagnosing heart diseases for over two decades. He has a honorary membership of many international organizations in the area of cardiology.
CENTER FOR NEPHROLOGY AND UROLOGY IN FORTIS MEDICAL CENTER INDIA
Fortis Hospital & Kidney Institute (FHKI) is a 60-bed hospital network located in South Calcutta. The hospital was opened on July 3, 1999 for the therapy of kidney and urological diseases by medical and surgical means.
The clinic conducts 92% of successful kidney transplants. The hospital is designed for 60 people. It has a special 12-person room for dialysis, which works around the clock. And 4 high-tech operating units.
Fortis Hospital & Kidney Institute has the following functions:
- Nephrology and Urology Department - is engaged in laparoscopic urology, reconstructive urology, female urology, andrology, urological oncology, pediatric urology. The hospital also carries out the crushing of stones in the bladder with a lithotriptor.
- Kidney transplantation Department . Here, kidney transplantation and continuous outpatient peritoneal dialysis are performed in acute kidney failure.
- Minimal invasive surgery Department : cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) repair of a hernia, gastrectomy, laparotomy, splenectomy (removal of the spleen), anal surgery.
- Gynecological Department: hysterectomy (removal of the uterus), ovarian cystectomy, endometriosis, vaginal reconstruction.
The leading physician of the Fortis clinic in Calcutta is Dr. Shivaji Basu. An outstanding urologist with more than 30 years of experience in urology. He has more than 22,000 urologic surgeries and procedures on his account.
Shivaji Basu for the first time in India began to use the non-surgical method of crushing stones in the kidneys - lithotripsy. Specializes in treatment of kidney stones and urological oncology. He is the author of many scientific articles in leading medical publications.
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