World-Class Care. Always Free.
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences (SSSIHMS), Whitefield, is a tertiary-care super-specialty hospital in Bengaluru, Karnataka, established under the divine inspiration of Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba and run by the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust.
The mission of the Institute is to provide the highest quality of medical care — completely free of charge — to all patients, irrespective of caste, creed, religion and financial status, in an atmosphere of love and care.
The hospital was inaugurated on 19 January 2001 by the Honorable Prime Minister of India, Sri Atal Behari Vajpayee, in the Divine Presence. It offers super-specialty services in Cardiology, Cardiac Surgery, Neurosurgery and Anesthesiology, alongside a general hospital, diagnostic services, and accredited postgraduate and allied health training programmes.
✦ 100% Free Medical Care for All
Service in Numbers
Doctors should serve the poor with a spirit of sacrifice. There is no greater service than this. Medicine should not be commercialised. It is meant to promote a heart-to-heart and love-to-love relationship between doctor and patient.
A Temple of Healing, Not a Hospital
Bhagawan’s guideline to the architects was that the building should not look, or smell, like a hospital — but like a temple of healing. The K-shaped structure was chosen from three designs, its two angular wings looking like open arms welcoming the sick, with a promise of cure.
Ceilings were made 14 feet high, as against the conventional 9 to 12 feet, to give the building a grand look and ample light and ventilation. The front set-back from the road is at least 200 feet, and patients can see an expanse of green from their beds. The top of the dome stands 108 feet from ground level and the rotunda is 75 feet in diameter.
Over half a million square feet of construction and finishing was completed in sixteen months. The project includes, besides the hospital building and associated facilities, a staff colony with quarters, a canteen, a water supply distribution system, and a sewage treatment plant.
A 52-Acre Campus at Whitefield
The Beginning
The hospital has its genesis in May 1999, when the government of Karnataka requested Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba to accept a grant of a 52.24 acre plot of land in the EPIP area of Whitefield, and to bless the people of Karnataka with a temple of healing for the sake of the poor and needy. The mammoth project, involving 6 million man hours, was completed within a span of nine months.
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust
SSSIHMS operates under the Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, which oversees a wide range of educational, medical and service institutions established by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba — serving millions across India and the world.
International Collaborations
On 20-Jun-2025 in Tokyo, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences signed memoranda of understanding with two international centres, covering its hospitals at Prasanthigram and Whitefield. Their purpose is to develop educational and medical exchanges and cooperation, on a reciprocal basis, for the benefit of both institutions and of the doctors and students concerned.
Institute of Science Tokyo — Department of Cardiovascular Surgery
- Signed by Dr. Tomoyuki Fujita, Professor and Chairman, Department of Cardiovascular Surgery, and Dr. Sundaresh Dabir Chander, Director, SSSIHMS
- Witnessed by Mr. Ryuko Hira, President, Sai Hira India Foundation, Tokyo
University of Chicago Medicine — Heart and Vascular Center
- Signed by Dr. Valluvan Jeevanandam, Cynthia Chow Professor of Surgery and Director, Heart and Vascular Center, and Dr. Sundaresh Dabir Chander, Director, SSSIHMS
- Witnessed by Mr. Ryuko Hira, President, Sai Hira India Foundation, Tokyo
Forms of Cooperation (both agreements)
More About the Hospital
Vision
Healthcare should be provided free to all, in an atmosphere of love with an aim to heal the patient in body, mind and soul.
Mission
To provide free medical care to the sick and ailing with dedication, commitment, love and the best of skills, to facilitate healing in body, mind and spirit.
Started by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba in the year 2001, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield is 4th such venture of Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, to provide best of the best, high quality medical and surgical care to the poorest of the poor patient, free of cost, without any discrimination based on caste, creed or nationality.
It is a 333-bedded tertiary care hospital inaugurated by the then Prime Minister of India, Sri Atal Behari Vajpayee, it is located in the picturesque suburbs of Whitefield in the garden city of Bangalore, Karnataka, India.
Shaped in the form of letter K, the Hospital stands for Karuna or compassion and has been successful in healing thousands of diseased hearts and brains and returning to the society a healthy and grateful individual touched by spirit of sacrifice and transformed to make a difference to the fellow human beings.
Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences is equipped with state- of-art diagnostic and treatment facilities, highly skilled medical, nursing and paramedical professionals delivering care with love and compassion, in a clean, aesthetic and spiritual environment ensuring that healing happens in body, mind and spirit.
Infrastructure wise, Hospital has state of the art 1.5 Tesla Siemens MagnetomAera MRI Scanner, 128 slice HD 750 GE CT Scanner, Siemens Artis Zee Biplane Cath Lab, Philips Monoplane Cathlab, Medtronic S7 Neuro-navigation system, 12 fully equipped operation theaters, automated biochemistry and microbiology analyzers, high end diagnostic Cardiology equipment, full blown Hospital Information System (ATHMA) and MedDream PACS.
Apart from patient care, Hospital is also active creating next generation of doctors, nurses and technologists.
Hospital has a very active post graduate and post doctoral programs affiliated to National Board of Examinations providing DNB in Cardiac Surgery, Neurosurgery, Cardiology, Anesthesiology and Radiology.
Additionally Hospital also has post doctoral fellowships in Interventional Cardiology, Cardiac Anesthesia, Critical Care Anesthesia and Cross sectional imaging.
In the paramedical field, Hospital provides BSc Nursing, BSc Imaging Technology, BSc Perfusion Technology, BSc Anesthesia Technology, BSc Cardiac Technology and BSc Medical Laboratory Technology.
Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust, Prasanthi Nilayam is perhaps the only charitable trust in INDIA to offer complete medical care including consultation, diagnosis, comprehensive treatment and follow – up and diet at the primary, secondary and tertiary levels to all patients free of all charges irrespective of his caste, creed, religion or economic status.
The founder, Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba has established the Trust with the motto of Service to man is service to GOD and with the mission of providing free and quality health care to all patients.
Board of Trustees — Sri Sathya Sai Central Trust
- Chancellor, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
- Former Collector & District Magistrate of Anantapuram District
- Former Finance Secretary (Projects), Govt. of A P
- Former Commissioner of Relief, Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Govt. of A P
- Former Registrar of Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Learning
- Chairman of India Development Foundation
- Former Chairman, Finance Commission
- Former Secretary, Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister of India
- President and Representative Director at Hotel Management International Co., Ltd.
- He was conferred the prestigious Pravasi Bharatiya Samman by the Government of India in 2010 and Padma Shri in 2022
- Overseas Chairman of Sri Sathya Sai International Organization, Zone B, which spans across Asia, the Middle-East and Africa, covering a total of 80 countries.
- Chairman and Chief of Diabetology at Dr. Mohan’s Diabetes Specialities Centre
- President and Director of Madras Diabetes Research Foundation, Chennai
- Awarded Padma Shri by Govt. of India in 2012
- Chartered Accountant and Senior Advocate of the High Court of Karnataka and the Supreme Court of India
- Former President Karnataka section of the International Commission of Jurists
- Full time looking after activities of the Trust as Managing Trustee. MBA from Sri Sathya Sai University
- Former Judge of Supreme Court of India
- Hospitality and Infrastructure businessman
- Former Additional Chief Secretary, Department of Finance, Government of Karnataka
Hospital Executive Committee — Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Whitefield
- Chairman, Hospital Executive Committee
- Director, Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences
- MS, SSSGH, Whitefield
- Chairman Orthopedic Department, SSSIHMS PG
- HOD Orthopedic SSSGH, Whitefield
- HOD and Sr. Consultant Neurosurgery
- HOD and Sr. Consultant Anesthesia & Critical Care and Principal of Critical Care Anesthesia and Cardiac Anesthesia Fellowship and Anesthesia Care Technology
- HOD and Sr. Consultant, Cardiology
- HOD and Sr. Consultant, Cardiology
- Finance Controller
- Sr. Manager HR
- Coordinator, Hospital Executive Committee, EA to Director, Sr. Manager, Radiology