National Heart Institute, brain child of doyenne of cardiology in India, Dr. S. Padmavati, was inaugurated in 1981 by the Prime Minister of India, Mrs. Indira Gandhi, as the Clinical Research and Medical Care Delivery wing of All India Heart Foundation, with the aim of providing State-of-art Modern Cardiac Care to the financially impoverished section of society. It was intended to be a self-sufficient facility and therefore it was decided that people with paying capacity should also be taken up and the surplus generated from them be channelized for the treatment of the poor.
