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Chennai, Aug. 19

Star Health and Medical Tourism Pvt Ltd, an associate of Star Health Insurance, India’s only stand alone health insurance company, has opened its first poly-clinic, Star Clinics, in Chennai. According to Mr A.G. Gajapathy, Executive Director of the company, this is in accordance with the plan to establish multi-specialty outpatient treatment facilities in major cities across the country. The company also plans to cover tier II and tier III cities. At present it has 2 4 poly-clinics in Tamil Nadu and one in Kerala. “We aim to provide primary healthcare to rural and semi-urban public, and hope to add another six clinics by the end of this month.” The proposal is to open have 100 clinics in the four southern States by the end of this year. “We also hope to set up several such clinics across the country by the end of next fiscal.” The company spends Rs 5 lakh per clinic on an average. “All our clinics, barring a few, are tele-networked.” said Mr Gajapathy. —

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