Fortis Healthcare today said it will add 850 beds in next one year and has invested Rs 480 crore in its flagship hospital at Gurgaon as part of its expansion drive.
“We are going to add 850 beds in three hospitals in the next twelve months. These include 450 beds in Fortis Memorial Research Institute (FMRI) Gurgaon,” Fortis Healthcare Executive Chairman Malvinder Mohan Singh told PTI.
The company has already invested Rs 480 crore in the Phase I of FMRI, which has a potential capacity of 1,000 beds, he added.
“The other 400 beds will be added in two greenfield hospitals at Ludhiana and Chennai. Both the hospitals will have 200 beds each,” Singh said.
Fortis Healthcare Executive Vice-Chairman Shivinder Mohan Singh said in order to make FMRI a world class healthcare facility, the company has hired top medical talents apart from creating infrastructure with the most advanced technologies.
The hospital in Gurgaon is a multi-speciality care hospital with super-specialisation in oncology, paediatric care and trauma and centres of excellence in neurosciences, minimal access surgery, cardiac sciences and orthopaedics, Fortis said.
The healthcare major operates in various geographies, including Australia, Canada, Dubai, Hong Kong and Singapore, and its network comprises 76 hospitals, over 12,000 beds, over 600 primary care centres, 191 day care speciality centres and over 230 diagnostic centres.