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Fortis Healthcare to add 280 hospital beds in Bengaluru by 2016

25 Mar 2014 Evaluate

Fortis Healthcare (Fortis), India’s largest and fastest growing integrated healthcare delivery provider underlined its commitment to the region by putting in motion expansion plans that will see the commissioning of two high end medical facilities in Bengaluru, aggregating 280 beds, over the next two years.

The company laid the foundation stone for an exclusive centre, Fortis La Femme, dedicated to mother and child care, at Richmond Road, in the heart of the city. The ground-breaking ceremony, for Fortis's 210-bed tower on Bannerghatta Road (BG Road) with a comprehensive cancer-care facility, will be performed on March 25, 2014. Apart from oncology, the new expansion will have additional operation theatres with a high end Brain Suite and state-of-the-art ICU's.

Fortis La Femme at Richmond Road, a 70-bed hospital will be ready to receive patients by mid-2015. It will provide primary to tertiary medical care and surgical capability in gynecology, obstetrics and cosmetology, in addition to an In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) clinic and a fully-equipped neonatal intensive care unit. Through Fortis Mamma Mia, the hospital will provide holistic ante and post-natal services for women and day-care medical services for children.

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