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Apollo Hospitals beds set to cross 10,000

 04-Oct-15, ET Healthworld

Apollo Hospitals will open four more hospitals in four to five months, taking its total bed strength to over 10,000, Apollo Hospitals chairman C. Prathap Reddy said on Saturday.

Apollo Hospitals beds set to cross 10000 (c) ET Healthworld

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The hospitals at Bengaluru, Visakhapatnam, Mumbai and Guwahati will add over 1,000 beds to the group's present bed strength of 9,000.

The largest private hospitals chain is investing Rs.1,400 crore (USD216 mn) on construction of these four hospitals, new clinics and also on Apollo Homecare, the new division of the group.

Stating that India needs 100,000 additional beds every year for next one decade, Reddy said there was need for new hospitals to meet the huge demand.

Apollo has presence at 40 locations across India, with six facilities overseas and another six coming up, five in Africa and one in Saudi Arabia.

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