Jammu:Son of the soil Dr. Nikhil Mahajan, who has completed his MBBS and MD Medicine from Government Medical College Jammu and did his DNB Cardiology from India’s Premier Heart Institute Fortis Escorts Heart Institute, Delhi has joined as Associate Consultant at Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspecialty Hospital, Katra. Dr. Nikhil Mahajan is a gold medalist of MBBS batch of 2004-09 of Jammu University. He has also served as Registrar at Government Medical College, Jammu for a brief duration. He was working at Fortis Escort Heart Institute Delhi as Associate Consultant Cardiology and has performed various complex heart procedures before joining Narayana Hospital. Dr Nikhil Mahajan has been appointed to aid affordable quality health care to the people of Jammu and Kashmir by Narayana hospital.
With the joining of Dr Nikhil at Narayana hospital , patient in need of complex procedure which are usually done at high-end tertiary care centres and people from Jammu travel to either Delhi or Punjab to get such treatments done. Now, they don’t have to travel long distances as complex cardiac procedures and surgeries will be performed at SMVDNSH in Jammu itself. Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspecialty Hospital, Katra is a state-of-the-art tertiary care super speciality hospital which was started in partnership with the ‘Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Shrine Board’, caters to patients across more than 20 different specialties with special focus on Cardiac Sciences and Shri Mata Vaishno Devi Narayana Superspeciality Hospital is a one of its kind hospital in providing accommodation for medical and paramedical staff within the hospital premises. Founded by Dr. Devi Shetty, a pioneer in the field of Cardiac surgery in India, Narayana Health is headquatered at Bangalore and operates a network of hospitals across the country, with a particularly strong presence in the southern state of Karnataka and eastern India, as well as an emerging presence in northern, western and central India.