Apollo Hospitals also plans to invest Rs 1,400 crore over the next couple of years for expansion
Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai, a state-of-the-art super speciality tertiary care hospital was recently inaugurated in Navi Mumbai. by Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Minister, Maharashtra and Vidyasagar Rao, Governor, Maharashtra. Also, present on the occasion was Dr Deepak Sawant, Minister of Public Health and Family Welfare. Apollo Hospitals in Navi Mumbai is the 66th hospital in the pioneering group’s network.
Spread over 7,00,000 sqft Apollo Hospitals, Navi Mumbai houses more than 50 specialities, equipped with multi- disciplinary high-end tertiary care. The 500-bedded super specialty hospital is equipped with cutting-edge technology, 14 operating theatres, three cath labs, 69 consultation suites, superior five-bed standard units, spacious single rooms and 4500 sq ft of presidential suites.
The hospital is equipped with advanced diagnostics including AlluraClarity Cath lab, digital mammogram, X-ray stereotactic biopsy, 3 Tesla MRI and more. The hospital will provide comprehensive services in major specialities. Each of these departments will be led by highly experienced and skilled doctors, educated and trained at the foremost medical institutions of the UK, the US and India. The nursing services and the patient-care providers are specially trained to provide compassionate care round-the-clock.
Apollo Hospitals also plans to invest Rs 1,400 crore over the next couple of years for expansion. Moreover, the company is all set to come up with the modern Proton therapy at its Chennai facility for the treatment of cancer patients in near future.
“We have lined up an investment of Rs 1,400 crore over next couple of years and the investment would be made in the opening of new hospitals and expansion of already existing healthcare centres,” Apollo Hospitals Chairman Prathap C Reddy told reporters during the launch ceremony.
“We are looking at having our own hospital at Guwahati in North-East and we have already acquired land in Jaipur for the setting of a hospital in future,” he said.
Talking about the forthcoming Proton therapy at its Chennai facility, he said, “Work has already begun on the setting up of the Proton therapy at the group’s Chennai facility and we hope that it would become operational over next one-and-half years’ time.”
Currently this facility was available only in two countries like China and Japan and India will become the third country to have this facility for treatment of cancer patients,” Apollo Hospital’s Managing Director Suneeta Reddy said.
“We are also looking at adding oncology facility at the group’s already existing hospitals at places like Visakhapatnam and Bhubaneshwar,” she added.
(With inputs from PTI)
EH News Bureau