Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

Apollo Hospitals, leading private sector healthcare provider will open two hospitals by this year end. One hospital will come up at Thiruchirapalli and the second one will be a public, private partnership (PPP) project. The place has not been decided yet for the second one.

The total number of hospitals will be 56 after including these two, with bed-strength of over 9,000. The 200-bed super specialty hospital at Hyderguda will provide a hyper tension programme, a first-of-its-kind in the country, along with green light laser therapy.

The entity is likely to come up with a mega health park at Chittoor in Andhra Pradesh. As part of it, a skill training institute would come up in partnership with the National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC). The institute will train 4,000-5,000 manpower per year. The park will also offer research infrastructure and have a manufacturing facility for beds, intensive care devices, wheel chair, etc. The group is in discussions with various device manufacturing companies to set up base there.