National Heart Institute, established in 1981, is a land mark in the health care delivery in India. It was the first heart institute to be launched in India . The National Heart Institute is the research & referral tertiary care heart hospital of the All India Heart Foundation, which acts as a nucleus for diagnosis and treatment of heart ailments and allied diseases and is equipped with state of the art equipment's. Surgical services include all kinds of closed and open heart surgeries like coronary artery bypass surgery, off pump bypass surgery (beating heart surgery), valve repair & replacement surgeries, aortic / carotid surgeries, congenital heart surgeries including blue babies and minimally invasive (Key hole) surgeries.