Chairman and Managing Director
A legend in CT Surgery, Dr. Bollineni Bhaskar Rao {MBBS, MS, DNB (CT Surgery)} is one of the very few CardioThoracic Surgeons in the country, who performed over 30000 surgeries in his career spanning over more than 25 years.
Well known in the medical fraternity for his passion towards his profession, Dr. Rao started his entrepreneurial journey
at “Mahavir Cardio Vascular Centre” in Hyderabad with 50 beds and performed heart surgeries at an unimaginable 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. B. 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 art technology and infrastructure facilities.
Today KIMS is spread across 12 locations in Telangana, Andhra Pradesh and Maharashtra.
Dr. Bhaskar Rao was instrumental in formulating 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 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.