Dr. Bhaba Nanda Das
Experience: Over 40 years
Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals
New Delhi, India
Introduction
Dr. Bhaba Nanda Das is the Chief Cardiac Surgeon at Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals. Has forty years of experience and has performed over twenty thousand heart surgeries. Still operating on roughly eight hundred complex cardiac cases every year. Patients reach him in cases such as when coronary arteries are too far gone for stents, or a child was born with heart defects that need surgical correction to survive.
About Dr. Bhaba Nanda Das
Dr. Bhaba Nanda Das did an MS from PGIMER, Chandigarh. MCh in Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery from AIIMS, New Delhi. Those two institutions back to back produce a particular surgeon, one who trained under insane volumes and pressure before private hospitals even entered the cardiac surgery space in India.
Spent over a decade as a senior consultant at AIIMS before moving to Apollo. Dr. Bhaba has done over twenty thousand surgeries. His ten-plus years of government hospital cardiac surgery help, where patients show up in the worst possible condition because they couldn’t afford to come earlier.
Qualifications
- MBBS — University of Gauhati.
- MS (General Surgery) — PGIMER, Chandigarh.
- MCh (CTVS) — AIIMS, New Delhi.
- WHO Fellowship.
- Commonwealth Fellowship.
Awards & Recognition
- Chief Cardiac Surgeon at Indraprastha Apollo.
- Over 20,000 heart surgeries performed.
- Approximately 800 cases annually.
- Vishisth Chikitsa Ratan Award — Delhi Medical Association (2012).
- Lifetime Achievement Award in cardiothoracic surgery.
- Former senior consultant at AIIMS for over a decade.
Specialities & Expertise
- Beating-heart coronary bypass surgery
- Double valve replacement
- Aortic aneurysm surgery
- Congenital heart defect repair
- Intra-cardiac repair procedures
- Complex adult and pediatric cardiac surgery
Patient Experience & Approach
Families describe Dr. Bhaba Nanda Das’ pre-surgery talks as direct, covering the heart issue, surgical fix, risks, and recovery without vague reassurances or undue alarm. Parents of children with complex defects appreciated simple diagrams explaining blood flow errors and surgical rerouting. Those needing double valve replacement valued open discussion of risks compared to staged surgery, ensuring an informed decision.