Episode 35: Dr. Bhagwan Koirala | Sushant Pradhan Podcast

Dr. Bhagwan Koirala is a Cardiothoracic Surgeon, Professor, and Social worker who is the key person to have started Open Heart Surgery in Nepal in on1997. He led the newly established Shahid Gangalal National Heart Center as the Executive Director from 2001 to 2009. He later became the Executive Director of Tribhuvan University Teaching Hospital where he cleaned up many irregularities and rescued the hospital from the brink of financial collapse. Dr. Bhagwan Koirala had performed or directly supervised over 13,000 heart surgeries between 2001 and 2020. Apart from leading the technical and clinical teams, he has facilitated the free treatment of heart diseases for poor patients, children, senior citizens, and those in desperate need. Follow Dr. Bhagwan Koirala on Twitter: https://twitter.com/koiralabhagawan?lang=en