Fortis Escorts Heart Institute has been Ranked as the Best Hospital in Cardiac Sciences for 3 Consecutive Years

By Bipasha Mitra

FEHI is the best heart hospital in Asia-Pacific and one of the best in the world

Fortis Escorts Heart Institute (FEHI) in New Delhi has been ranked as the best private hospital for cardiac sciences for the third time in a row in 2016 by the Week-Neilson Survey.
The Week-Neilson Survey conducted across 18 cities annually.
The survey's criteria are based on the expertise of the doctors, quality of patient care, availability of multi-specialty facilities, overall recognition, infrastructure, innovation and hospital environment.
In this joyous occasion the Chairman of FEHI, Dr. Ashok Seth said that the hospital has always extended the highest quality of treatment in cardiac care and strives to be the best cardiac hospital in Asia Pacific and one of the best in the world.
Fortis Escorts Heart Institute is one of the first hospitals that has adopted advanced cardiac procedures like subcutaneous ICD, left ventricle assisted device, multi-layered flow modulator surgeries.
It has also performed life-saving interventions on both older and pediatric patients.
The hospital has also performed over a hundred thousand angiographies, more than eight thousand cardiac surgeries, twenty thousand paediatric cardiac surgeries, fifty nine thousand angioplasties for thirty years.

Source: India Live Today

Written by

Bipasha Mitra

Vaidam Health · Updated 25 Sept 2026

After completing her Bachelors Degree in English and PG Diploma in Journalism, Bipasha started her career in writing. With an eye for detail and a creative bent of mind, she emphatically crafts patient's stories, and pens blogs and articles understanding what the readers want to know and should know for their medical treatment.

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Dr. Ashok SethInterventional Cardiologist

Dr. Ashok Seth is one of the most skilled Interventional Cardiologists in India. With over 40 years of experience, he has performed over 50,000 angiograms and 20,000 angioplasties. Dr. Seth is a Padma Shri and Padma Bhushan recipient. He has been featured in the "LIMCA'' Book of Records for performing one of the world's highest numbers of angiographies and angioplasties. Dr. Seth is also the first Asian Pacific cardiologist to perform an Angioscopy and directional Atherectomy. He was one of the youngest overseas doctors to be awarded a Fellowship of all the three Royal Colleges of London, Edinburgh & Ireland. Dr. Ashok is the first Cardiologist from Asia to be elected to the Board of Governors of the Society of Cardiac Angiographies and Intervention (USA).