Vasan Healthcare, the Chennai-based ocular and dental hospitals chain, will revive its plans to start its hospitals abroad next financial year. To begin with, the firm would open units in the Gulf and Colombo from where it gets a good number of patients.
After setting up clinics in all the Southern States, the company is planning to open clinics in the North India as well.
“Though we have been planning to go abroad, we could not do that. We have not frozen the plans. We will revive them next year,” Mr P. A. Unni, Director (Strategy and Planning) of Vasan Healthcare Private Ltd , said.
He, however, said the company had no immediate plans to infuse fresh funds from PE players.
The chain, which had 92 clinics in the four South and a few in the North, would have 100 clinics by the December-end and 150 by March 2012. Of these, 125 would be eye care units and the remaining dental clinics.
Mr Unni was here on Sunday in connection with the daylong VasKon 2011, the fourth edition of annual conference on issues related to eye care. Over 300 ophthalmologists from all over South India participated in the conference.