To set-up third super specialty hospital in the city with 200 beds at an investment of Rs 150 crores
Apollo Hospitals, one of the largest leading integrated healthcare provider in India, is set to increase its presence in Karnataka by adding a 200-bed hospital at Malleshwaram, Bengaluru. Currently, the company has investments of Rs 500 crores in Karnataka with two hospitals at Bengaluru and one at Mysore.
According to Dr Prathap C Reddy, Chairman, Apollo Group of Hospitals, “Karnataka has been on top of the medical tourism map which is being extensively promoted by Apollo Hospitals. We have generated about Rs 100 crores in precious foreign exchange for the government. Our hope is that with newer facilities, we will not only be able to reach more patients in the state but attract more patients from Asian countries as well.”
Apollo Hospitals Malleshwaram will offer the complete range of diagnostic services including a 128-slice CT scan, 1.5T 18 channel MRI and high-end 4D ultra-sonography among others. The emergency services will be operational 24X7 and the state-of-the-art operation theatres with adequate post-op facilities will enable complex surgeries at the hospital.
The hospital will open for service by April 2015. The group is also planning to expand the reach of its Apollo clinics to 20 from 14 across the state and set up one more Apollo Cradle over the next 12 months.
The group’s Banergatta hospital has an oncology centre with an advanced radio surgery system (True Beam), making it one of its kind in Asia. The orthopaedic centre at Jayanagar has achieved the milestone of conducting 1,000 joint replacement procedure this calendar year.
At present Apollo has 8,488 beds across 51 hospitals, 1,586 pharmacies, 92 primary care and diagnostic clinics, 100 telemedicine units in 10 countries.