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Care Hospital to set up new facilities in six States

Hyderabad: Care Hospital is expanding its activities by setting up new state-of-the-art hospitals in Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat, Orissa and Kerala.

New infrastructure

On the occasion of completion of a decade of providing healthcare, Care Hospital CEO N. Krishna Reddy told reporters here on Thursday that a sum of Rs. 200 crore would be invested over the next one year in creating new infrastructure, high-tech equipment and training.

Dr. Krishna Reddy said apart from its operations in Hyderabad, Vijayawada and Visakhapatnam, Care had established hospitals in Nagpur, Pune, Bhubaneswar and Raipur. Another hospital is coming up in Surat before October, raising the total bed strength in the new facilities to 1,350. “By the end of the decade, the total bed strength will touch 5,000 that will make Care the fifth largest healthcare institution,” he added.

Telemedicine

Care earned revenue of Rs. 180 crore in 2006-07 and handled 4 lakh outpatient and 35,000 in-patient cases last year. Chairman of Care Foundation, P. Krishnam Raju, said over 17,000 patients had benefited from the telemedicine programme of the hospital.

He said the digital radiography prototype testing was under way. The hospital had already tried out robotic surgery in cardiology while urological surgery has been planned.

Care Hospital chairman B. Soma Raju said that with a concrete plan to expand its model of healthcare delivery across the country, Care was rapidly scaling up its tertiary care operations alongside piloting models for secondary and primary healthcare delivery.

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