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The Chennai-headquartered Apollo Hospitals plans to expand facilities with an investment of Rs 900-1,000 crore in the next two years. It plans to add 2,500 more hospital beds by the end of 2013 to its current 8,500.
According to sources in the company, the new addition of beds will be through 20 new hospitals across the South and North India and two in Mumbai.
The plan is to add 1,000 beds by 2011-12 and another 1,500 beds by 2012-13. And the company is planning to mop up Rs 600 crore through qualified institutional placement, and promoters will infuse Rs 150 crore and the rest will be through internal accruals and debt.
On Tuesday, the company launched a full-field digital mammography with tomosynthesis (3D) system at Apollo Speciality Cancer Hospitals in the city.
This device, brought to India by Trivitron Healthcare, is based on a 3-dimensional imaging technology that involves acquiring images of a stationary compressed breast at multiple angles during a short scan, explained Dr G.S.K. Velu, Founder & Managing Director, Trivitron.
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