The Sri Sathya Sai Institute of Higher Medical Sciences, Prasanthigram, is a state-of-art super-specialty hospital offering totally free tertiary care to all its patients irrespective of race, religion, caste, creed, economic status or nationality. The hospital was inaugurated by Bhagawan Sri Sathya Sai Baba along with former Prime Minister of India Sri. P.V. Narasimha Rao in the year 1991. The hospital provides treatment in the specialties of Cardiology, Cardiothoracic and Vascular Surgery, Urology, Plastic Surgery, Ophthalmology, Orthopaedics and Gastroenterology (Endoscopy). The hospital has been serving humanity for the past 30 years offering high quality tertiary care medical services, completely free. Testimony to this is the fact that the hospital has performed over 3.0 million consultations and around 360,000 surgeries and procedures.