NATHEALTH Announces the New Leadership Team for the year 2019-20
Dr H Sudarshan
Ballal, MD, FRCP (UK), Chairman of Manipal Hospitals, Manipal Health
Enterprises Pvt Ltd, Bangalore elected as the President of NATHEALTH
New Delhi, 22nd
March 2019: India’s healthcare
apex body NATHEALTH announced
its new Leadership Team for the year 2019-20. Dr. Sudarshan Ballal, Chairman, Manipal Hospitals, Manipal Health Enterprises Pvt Ltd has
been elected as the President of the federation. He succeeds Mr. Daljit Singh, President, Fortis
Healthcare Limited.
Dr. Sudarshan Ballal thanked the outgoing President of NATHEALTH,
Mr. Daljit Singh and
warmly welcomed Mr. Rajit Mehta as Senior Vice President-NATHEALTH, along with
the other members of the NATHEALTH Leadership Team – Ms. Preetha Reddy as Vice President-NATHEALTH, Dr. Badhri
Iyengar as Secretary-NATHEALTH and Dr. Harsh Mahajan as Treasurer-NATHEALTH. Mr. Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Secretary General, NATHEALTH will lead the
federation with this team, towards
its goal of creating a robust platform for long term growth and sustainability
of India’s healthcare sector.
Speaking on
emerging priorities President,
NATHEALTH, Dr. Sudarshan Ballal said, this has been a truly tumultuous year
for healthcare and the events of this year will certainly shape the future of
healthcare in India. The greatest and biggest news and
development of 2018 is the rolling out of NHPM or Ayushman Bharat by the
central government providing Rs.5 lakh coverage to about 500
million poorer sections of the society. Stringent governmental regulations,
increased public and media attention on the cost of healthcare will
substantially affect the delivery of healthcare in our country. The effect of
demonetization, GST and capping of prices would further impact healthcare in a
big way. The greatest challenge for the healthcare sector is to” deliver 1st
world healthcare at 3rd world costs.”
Given these challenges in the healthcare
scenario NATHEALTH should focus
on a much broader participation by various stake holders and be the “Voice and Face of Healthcare” in the
country. We should work along all the other
forums for healthcare in the country at least in some critical areas and be the
interface between the government and private sector in advising models for
affordable, quality but viable healthcare for the masses. It would be crucial
for NATHEALTH be an advisor and knowledge partner to the government on their
policies regarding preventive care,
primary care, management of NCD, digital health, skilling and expanding the
pool of specialists both in the public and private sectors.
We should also be the torch bearers
for safe guarding the interests of the healthcare sector in these difficult
times. Mr. Siddhartha Bhattacharya, Secretary General-NATHEALTH said, “We welcome
our new leadership team which will continue to work towards the development of
the healthcare sector to benefit the people, address relevant healthcare issues
and champion the progress and development of this sector.”
About Dr. H. Sudarshan
Ballal: Dr. H. Sudarshan
Ballal was the best outgoing student (Blue Ribbon awardee) of the Kasturba
Medical College, Manipal and a recipient of many Gold Medals in MBBS and M.D.
and later had his further training in the USA and had the distinction of being
one of the few to be triple Board certified in Internal Medicine, Nephrology
& Critical Care. He has the rare distinction of being appointed as
Professor of Medicine with St. Louis University School of Medicine (USA) and is
also Adjunct Professor of Medicine at Manipal University.
He was conferred the fellowship of the Royal College
of Physicians, London for his contribution in Medicine. After working as a Consultant in Nephrology and Transplantation at the
St. Louis University School of Medicine, he moved back to India to head the
Nephrology Unit at Manipal Hospital, Bangalore.
He has been with Manipal Hospital, Bangalore ever since its inception as
the Director of Manipal Institute of Nephrology & Urology, later served
Medical Director and Chairman of Medical Advisory Board and is currently holds
the position of the Chairman, Manipal Hospitals, Manipal Health Enterprises
Pvt. Ltd. He is also the Chairman of
Stempeutics Research Pvt. Ltd. (A Group Company of Manipal Education and
Medical Group, Bangalore).
A clinician par excellence, excellent teacher and a
compassionate Physician, who had setup the first postgraduate training Centre
in Nephrology in Karnataka and performed the first cadaver kidney
transplantation in Karnataka. He is the recipient of numerous awards
including the prestigious Rajyotsava Award by the Government of Karnataka 2005,
the Namma Bengaluru Awards 2009, Dr. B. C. Roy award by the Government of
Karnataka in 2010, the Trinity Vaidya Rathna Award Aryabhata International and
the Teacher of Excellence Award by the National Board of Examination, New Delhi
conferred for his distinguished contributions. Recently he was honoured with
The Life-time Achievement Award 2018 – Presented by Bangalore Health Festival and
was recognised as A legend In Nephrology by the Times Group for his continuous
service and contribution in the field of Nephrology.
He was a past member of the Senate of Rajiv Gandhi
University of Health Sciences and is currently
a member of the senate of Manipal
Academy of Higher Education (MAHE recognised as an Institute of Eminence by the
government of India. He has numerous publications, in national and
international journals and has been an invited speaker at many national and
international forums.
He is also a Member of the Jury for Healthcare Awards
sponsored by CNBC-TV18 & ICICI Lombard and The Namma Bengaluru Awards. In addition to
academic and clinical activities, Dr. Ballal has been actively involved in many
Corporate Social Responsibilities through their family trust named “M/s.
Belanje Sanjeeva Hegde Trust”
About NATHEALTH: NATHEALTH has been created with the vision to “Be the credible
and unified voice in improving access and quality of healthcare”. Leading
healthcare service providers, medical technology providers (devices &
equipment), diagnostic service providers, health insurance companies, health
education institutions, healthcare publishers and other stakeholders have come
together to build NATHEALTH as
a common platform to power the next wave of progress in Indian
healthcare. NATHEALTH is
an inclusive institution that has representation of small & medium hospitals
and nursing homes. NATHEALTH is
committed to working on its mission to encourage innovation, help bridge the
skill and capacity gap, help shape policy & regulations and enable the
environment to fund long term growth. NATHEALTH aims to help build a better and healthier future
for both rural and urban India.
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