Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

Healthcare major Apollo Hospitals is planning to open 1,000 telemedicine centres in the next three years (1,000 days). The centres will mostly come up in India and abroad. The investment has not been finalized. Telemedicine is a process through which patients can consult doctors located at very distant places through electronic mediums without visiting them. Apollo currently has 103 telemedicine centres, of which nine are based abroad.
The tele-consultations market will roughly be 50-75 million. Around 800,000 tele-consultations have been done so far from the existing 650 telemedicine centres and 30-35 telemedicine wheels, where tele-consultations are provided through V-Sat, in the country. Apollo itself has done 69,000 such consultations. Apollo, which recently launched tele ambulances services, is also planning to launch a pilot project on telemedicine through mobile phones.