AT THE HEART OF PATIENT CARE Consolidating Cardiology Services in India

Medicover, a global medical group which is headquartered in Sweden, has consolidated its world-class cardiology services in India, employing the latest technology from Canon. Formerly known as Maxcure Hospital, it became the Medicover Group in 2017. By 2024, Medicover India operated 24 medical service facilities in four main regions in the country, including Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Karnataka

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Medicover's aim is to increase its role in providing high quality healthcare throughout India and the world, with the mission of providing Europeanstandard medical services to all who need them. Medicover India is working together with Canon to achieve this and recently was provided with three Canon Alphenix angiography systems. VISIONS Special spoke with Dr. Anil Krishna Gundala, an Interventional Cardiologist, Chairman and Managing Director of Medicover Group Hospitals India, about his inspiring journey in healthcare, his past experiences, future ambitions, and the partnership with Canon, which is set to rede!ne healthcare in India.

As the CEO of Medicover Group Hospitals in India, my journey in healthcare began not from the corporate heights, but at the very heart of patient care as an Interventional Cardiologist.

My path was profoundly in"uenced by a personal ordeal. My father suffered a sudden heart attack, and we had to rush him from our home at Nellore to Chennai (a distance of 185km) to find the appropriate medical care. This experience instilled a deep resolution in me to pursue cardiology, driven by the conviction that lifesaving treatment should be accessible to everyone, everywhere.

Cardiac emergencies can strike without warning, and in such critical moments, having immediate access to specialized care can mean the difference between life and death. This belief inspired me to establish a hospital where timely and top-tier cardiac treatment is always within reach.