Ms Kiran Mazumdar Shaw promoted Narayana Hrudayalaya (NH), on Thursday said it would set up four 5,000 bed health cities in India.
“We shall build four more 5,000 bed health cities in India, apart from Bangalore and Ahmedabad. These shall offer medical care facilities in heart, kidney and cancer,” NH CMD Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi told PTI.
“One city each is planned in Jaipur and West Bengal, while two shall come up on the outskirts of Kolkata,” he said adding that land for the Jaipur project has been acquired and project for West Bengal is in final stages of negotiation.
“The health city in Jaipur is expected to be operational in next three years,” Mr Raghuvanshi said.
The NH group today dedicated a 300-bed hospital at Rakhiyal in Ahmedabad, which is first phase of the 5,000 bed health city project here being developed with an investment of Rs 600 crore. It will be inaugurated by Gujarat Chief Minister Mr Narendra Modi later today.
The facility here, projected to have a Centre of Excellence, has potential to treat 10,000 patients per day.
The group has set an ambitious target of having a 30,000 bed capacity on low cost model in 100 towns across the country, having population between half a million to one million, and currently working without a heart hospital.
“The model low cost 300-bed hospitals using pre-fabricated technology costs around $ 6 million, which otherwise of similar capacity are constructed at an investment of around $ 30-35 million, NH Chairman Dr Devi Shetty said.
“Nine such low cost model hospitals are in project stage, four of them are in West Bengal, one each in Orissa and Assam, they shall be operational in next five to seven years,” he said.