Dr Harinder Singh Bedi
Mohali, July 17, 2019: Dr Harinder Singh Bedi – one of the senior most Cardio Vascular Surgeons of India has taken over as Director Cardio Vascular Endovascular & Thoracic Sciences Department of the prestigious Ivy Hospital in Mohali, Punjab.
Dr Bedi who is an internationally acclaimed Cardio-Vascular Endovascular & Thoracic Surgeon, said, “I take on this mantle with great humility and solicit the good wishes of all my friends and well wishers. Our Heart Lung & Vascular Team plans to make a centre of excellence to serve our people. The team has dedicated compassionate highly skilled professionals some of whom have been with me for over 25 years. The team has so far had a truly fantastic experience in helping so many patients under HIS guidance.
The aim is to give International level care with skill and compassion . Dr Bedi is credited with 3 world first surgeries documented in the Limca Book of World Records . He was the first to document the first series of 100 patients of multivessel beating heart surgery with angiographic follow up . This was published in the most prestigious cardiac surgery journal – the Annals of Thoracic Surgery – and also in the Limca Book of World Records .
Dr Bedi has earlier worked at the St Vincents Hospital in Australia where he has had extensive training in Heart and Lung transplant . He has also recently used the 3D printing technology for treating a large lung malformation – this was the first time in the word that this was ever done . He also has an innovative procedure which is named after him – the Bedi-LIMA buttress technique .
The Ivy group is a large chain of super specialty hospitals . The Mohali hospital is the Flagship hospital located in Sector 71 and is a 205 bedded superspeciality hospital and is dedicated to excellence in medical care . Dr Bedi said that it was his aim to start heart and lung transplants also so that patients from this area need not go to Delhi or Chennai for transplants .