Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd.

Apollo Hospitals Enterprise is planning to add a cancer care unit to its upcoming Navi Mumbai facility, the project which is under development. The company will invest around Rs 87 crore for the cancer care unit.

The setting up of cancer unit in the project is a part of the company's strategy of covering oncology services through hospitals across the country.

While earlier the company was planning to set up a super speciality hospital with capacity of 350 beds with an investment of around Rs 350 crore, the estimated project cost has been increased to Rs 437.4 crore, by the end of third quarter of the current fiscal year. The number of beds would remain at 350, for the project.

Apollo Hospitals is the leading private sector healthcare provider in Asia and owns and manages a network of speciality hospitals and clinics, a chain of Pharmacy retail outlets across the country, and provides Consultancy Services for commissioning and managing the Speciality Hospitals.