Apollo Hospitals Group will invest Rs 1,500 crore on increasing the number of its beds to nearly 11,500 by March 2014, said Dr Prathap Reddy, Founder-Chairman of the hospital chain
“While we had a full fledged hospital functioning in the city, we believe Ahmedabad needed an acute heart facility where intervention procedures could be carried on 24×7. The new facility will come up by July for which we have hired project consultant company to draw a plan for us,” said Prathap Reddy, chairman of Apollo Group of Hospitals.

In Gujarat, where Apollo Hospitals and Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd have a 50:50 partnership, the duo has decided to launch an additional cardiac clinic by July this year at an investment of Rs 15 crore. They are also considering setting up one or two more hospitals in Gujarat, at a distance of nearly three hours from Ahmedabad, he said.

Nationally, by March 31 2014, the group is looking to add 2,500 beds at an investment of Rs 1,500 crore. By end of 2012 alone Apollo intends to take up the total number of beds to 10,000 across its 56 hospitals.
Apart from expanding its 200 bed capacity at Apollo Hospitals Ahmedabad to 400, the group will also add four more clinics in Gujarat to its current six in the near future. While it has a 50:50 partnership with Cadila Pharmaceuticals for its operations in Gujarat, Apollo is taking the alliance international into countries like Kenya, Ethiopia and Uganda.
Meanwhile, according to Reddy, India needs to add about 100,000 beds per annum for next nine years. “Of these 45 per cent need to be in the primary health care segment,” he added.

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