evidence: Dr. Shetty goes on to discuss the poor state of the Indian healthcare industry when he began his career, and some of the strategies he devised to improve both care and access with very limited resources. He explains how, in the 1980s and ‘90s, more than two million people a year needed heart surgeries in India—and not just elderly retirees, but young heads of household who were relied upon to support their families. At the time, there was only infrastructure to support roughly 150,000 heart surgeries a year. "It was a tragedy," he says. "It was needless death." It was also one of the primary motivations behind Dr. Shetty’s decision to found Narayana Health in 2001. [...] - "Dr Devi Shetty, Surgeon and Philanthropist," BBC iPlayer. [...] Interview with Devi Shetty, interviewed by Tarun Khanna, Boston, MA, October 10, 2017, Creating Emerging Markets Oral History Collection, Baker Library Special Collections, Harvard Business School.