Fortis Escorts Heart Institute

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute on Okhla Road in New Delhi is Asia-Pacific's largest and most celebrated dedicated private cardiac hospital, a 310-bed institution with the singular focus, depth of expertise and procedural volume that can only be achieved by a hospital devoted entirely to one organ system. Led by the legendary interventional cardiologist Dr. Ashok Seth – Padma Bhushan recipient, Past President of the Cardiological Society of India and a pioneer of robotic coronary angioplasty in India – Fortis Escorts is widely regarded as the benchmark cardiac institution in South Asia. The hospital operates 10 state-of-the-art cardiac catheterisation laboratories providing 24-hour emergency cardiac intervention capability – among the most cath labs in a single dedicated cardiac hospital in the Asia-Pacific region. This scale of cath lab infrastructure supports one of the world's highest-volume complex coronary intervention programmes, managing over 15,000 cardiac catheterisation procedures annually including primary PCI for STEMI emergencies, chronic total occlusion intervention, left main stenting, rotational atherectomy and structural heart procedures. The cardiac surgery programme at Fortis Escorts complements its interventional programme, offering CABG – including off-pump CABG on a beating heart – valve repair and replacement, congenital heart surgery and complex redo cardiac operations. The integration of medical cardiology, interventional cardiology, cardiac surgery and cardiac electrophysiology under one dedicated cardiac roof ensures seamless multidisciplinary decision-making for every patient. Dr. Seth introduced robotic coronary angioplasty and bioresorbable vascular scaffolds to India at Fortis Escorts, and the hospital's cardiac electrophysiology programme manages complex arrhythmias – atrial fibrillation, ventricular tachycardia, SVT – and implants pacemakers, ICDs and CRT devices. International patients from the Middle East, Africa, SAARC and Central Asia travel specifically to Fortis Escorts for complex cardiac interventions, attracted by its international accreditation, unparalleled procedural volume and the reassurance of being treated by one of the world's most experienced cardiac teams. For patients requiring complex cardiac intervention or surgery in Delhi NCR, Fortis Escorts Heart Institute stands without peer. The hospital's quality culture is exemplified by its cardiac surgery and PCI outcome registries — detailed databases tracking every procedural outcome, complication, readmission and patient-reported measure — that are benchmarked annually against STS and SCAI national databases from the USA. This rigorous outcome tracking ensures clinical standards are maintained objectively rather than through self-assessment alone, and provides prospective international patients with transparent, evidence-based outcome data for informed decision-making. Fortis Escorts's emergency cardiac care capabilities deserve special emphasis. The hospital's 24-hour primary PCI programme for STEMI patients achieves door-to-balloon times consistently below 60 minutes — among the best in India — reflecting the systems, training and clinical culture required to deliver time-critical life-saving care at consistently high quality. For patients who suffer acute cardiac events while in Delhi for medical tourism or business travel, Fortis Escorts provides a level of emergency cardiac intervention capability that is unavailable at most hospitals in the world. International patients choose Fortis Escorts Heart Institute not only for Dr. Seth's extraordinary personal expertise but for the institutional depth of the entire cardiac team — 50+ cardiologists, surgeons, electrophysiologists and imaging specialists — whose combined experience and collaborative decision-making ensures that every patient's care benefits from collective institutional wisdom rather than a single clinician's individual judgement alone.