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Fortis Hospitals to scale up its presence in Bangalore

BANGALORE: Fortis Hospitals, which is in the process of completing the acquisition of Wockhard Hospitals, will scale up its presence in Bangalore with the upcoming 120-bed tertiary facility in Peenya that is likely to be commissioned by July 2010.

Speaking to presspersons here on Monday, Fortis Hospitals Group Chief Executive Vishal Bali said the group has also opened a super-specialty out-patient medical centre in Marthahalli giving the group a much-needed foothold in east Bangalore. A hospital in east Bangalore is also being planned, he added.

Talking about the acquisition, Mr. Bali said, “The transaction of 10 Wockhardt Hospitals into the Fortis Healthcare network has been completed and these hospitals will now be rechristened as Fortis Hospitals. This deal is a landmark in the Indian healthcare sector and the transition has been accomplished seamlessly.” With the addition of 10 hospitals of Wockhardt, Fortis Healthcare has scaled up its presence to a network of 39 hospitals, and its bed capacity from 3,278 to 5,180. It now has extended its reach to 12 cities and has added two internationally-accredited hospitals in Bangalore and Mumbai.

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