Healers or Predators? – Tackling Healthcare corruption in India

Dr Samiran Nundy was a medical undergraduate in Cambridge and Guy’s Hospital London and then trained in Medicine and later in Surgery at Guy’s, Addenbrooke’s Cambridge, the Hammersmith and the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. He has taught at the Universities of Cambridge, London and Harvard and returned to the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in 1975 where he eventually became Professor and Head of the Department of Gastrointestinal Surgery. He left AIIMS in 1996 to start the Surgical Gastroenterology and Liver Transplantation Department in the Sir Ganga Ram Hospital, New Delhi

Dr. Devi Prasad Shetty is the Chairman and Senior Consultant Cardiac Surgeon of Narayana Group of Hospitals. He heads the Narayana Health Group with 29 hospitals in 17 cities. Health City Cayman Islands has been the first major overseas project. He was the first to ideate all encompassing “Health City” in the process of creating 5,000 bed Health cities in every state capital of India. Under his leadership NH manages world’s largest Telemedicine Programme having carried out 53,000 consultations so far. He is recognized for his thought leadership in creating National Health Policies and developing ingenious solutions for affordable healthcare delivery.

Dr. Thelma Narayan graduated in medicine from St. John’s Medical College, Bangalore. With an MSc Epidemiology and a doctorate in public health policy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine she is a scholar activist deeply committed to health and equity. She was a faculty member of the Department of Community Medicine, St. John’s Medical College till 1983. She is currently the Director – Academics and Health Policy Action – SOCHARA, Bangalore. She has been an advisor to various national health initiatives.

Vidya Krishnan is a Health journalist with over 18 years experience in reporting for leading Indian newspapers and international medical journals. Intellectual Property Rights in the pharmaceutical industry and access to medicine debates are special areas of interest. She has a Masters Degree in Critical Media and Cultural Studies at The School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London, PG Diploma in Journalism, Amity University, New Delhi (2002-03).