After a stint of two years because the chief military officer of Royal Enfield, Vinod K Dasari has announced his stepping down from the post to chase his ‘passion’ – affordable healthcare and skill development.
However, not much was discussed publicly about what his future passion is all about, aside from letting the media know that it’ll be a ‘not for profit’ venture. “It remains during a nascent stage. After being a baron for several years, I wanted to offer something back to society. The plan is to travel ahead with the healthcare venture founded by my wife Sarita, who may be a doctor,” Dasari told Business Standard. Before joining Royal Enfield, he was the director and chief military officer of another major automaker Ashok Leyland since 2011.
On August 4, a replacement building of a 40-bed multi-speciality hospital in Nungambakkam in Chennai under Vijay Ganga Specialty Care Ltd (VGSC) and owned by Dasari’s family was inaugurated. Dasari said the hospital will start operations within subsequent 15 days.
“We will come up with more facilities counting on its success. we’ve invested only around Rs 75 crore for this facility. within the corporate world, what we’ve invested during this new venture could also be alittle amount,” he said. VSGC was established by Dr Sarita in 2009 and began as alittle clinic in Mylapore in 2013. The new hospital would offer a network of comprehensive services that include primarily prevention and wellness, vascular services, nephrological services, urological services, general specialties, hospitalization , diagnostic and treatment services.
“One out of 5 people in India is diabetic, one out of three have hypertension and my wife is an expert therein field. So how can we leverage her skill and my skill to create something together,” he added. Dr Sarita may be a graduate of Karnataka Medical College, Hubli and did her specialisation in general medicine from Aultman Hospital and super specialisation in nephrology from Cleveland Clinic Foundation (CCF) in Ohio, us .
The couple is additionally getting to expand VGSC’s dialysis technologist training academy, also referred to as Train4Life, to develop skills of scholars , nursing attendants, and current practicing dialysis technologists. “Why not provide training to people and help them build their careers, it’ll be a part of the venture. we’ll be watching any skill base that’s required within the segment,” he said.
When asked about the not-for-profit model, Dasari said that for those that cannot afford treatment, a trust will lookout of the expenses. Though moving on as a hand in VGSC, Dasari considers the success of his son Sanjay Dasari (and partner’s) agri-commerce venture WayCool Foods together of the explanations behind his decision to offer something back to the society. Chennai-based WayCool Foods is one among the fastest growing agri-commerce companies focussed on food development and distribution, and is predicted to the touch revenues of Rs 1,000 crore this fiscal.
When asked about his decision to quit the company world, Dasari turned philosophical. “My passion or gift is to make investor businesses. The meaning of life is to seek out your gift and therefore the purpose of life is to offer it away. How do I provides it away. I can’t provides it away to some NGOs. the simplest thanks to roll in the hay is to start out something that grows. to offer something back to the community, including employment,” he said.