By IANS,
Kolkata: Super speciality hospital chain Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd would add more than 2,000 beds in its next phase of expansion between 2011-12 to 2013-14, a top company official said here Tuesday.
“Our board is yet to decide on the expansion plan but it would be more than 2,000 beds that we are adding till 2010-11,” Prathap C. Reddy, chairman of Apollo Group of Hospitals, said here at a press meet before inaugurating Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital.
Apollo Gleneagles Cancer Hospital is the first super speciality cancer hospital in eastern India. Last week, Apollo opened a 100-bed cancer hospital in Hyderabad.
“We are probably the only healthcare group in the world to have opened seven hospitals in the last six months,” he said.
Apollo Hospitals currently runs 50 hospitals in India. It is adding 11 hospitals by 2010-11 for Rs.1,800 crore investments. The hospital chain now has a bed-strength of 8,800.
Reddy said there are plans to start an under-graduate medical education college. “We are yet to decide where to open the college but there are definite plans,” he said.