Born in 1933 at Aragonda village of Tamil Nadu, he received his pre-medical degree from the Madras Christian College and his medical degree from Stanley Medical College, Chennai. He worked as a Resident at Worcenter City Hospital in the US and Missouri State Chest Hospital, US.
Before being an entrepreneur
After a decade in the US, he decided to come back to India. "As a cardiologist, my practice was flourishing in the US. But a letter from my father made me change my mind. Being a connoisseur of cars, I sent some pictures of a new car that I had bought, to my parents back in India. My father wrote back saying when would India reap the benefits of my affluence. I decided to follow the wisdom of my father and came back," Dr Reddy recollects. He chose to work at the 30-bed HM Hospital in Chennai for a sum of Rs 100 per day as a cardiologist. He worked there for a decade.
Why an entrepreneur?
He dreamt of providing the latest treatment in cardiology to his patients someday in a hospital built by him, but it was a single incident that firmed up his plans. While he was practising at HM Hospital, he used to often refer patients to Dr Denton Cooley, Houston for coronary bypass surgery, as the success rate of CABG in India was a lot to be desired at that time. "On November 9, 1979, I had this 38-year-old patient, who could not go abroad for surgery because he could not afford $ 30,000. When this person died leaving his young wife and two children, I was distraught. I said to myself that this tragedy should not occur to another person," he shares.
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