Apollo Hospitals, one of the largest private hospital chains in India, is setting up secondary and tertiary care facilities Karaikudi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karimnagar and CHITTOOR.
This is part of Apollo Hospital's programme to set up 3,000 beds across the rural areas of the country under the Apollo-Reach initiative.
Apollo-Reach initiative is aimed at by opening up hospitals in the rapidly emerging tier 2 and tier 3 cities in India.
"We are in the process of setting up hospitals in Karaikudi, Andaman & Nicobar Islands, Karimnagar and CHITTOOR and plans of establishing more facilities across the country are already underway,"Dr Prathap C Reddy, chairman Apollo Hospitals has stated in reports.
According to him, setting up hospitals in rural or semi-urban areas is a rigorous, time-consuming procedure. however, Apollo's experience in setting up hospitals across the country has helped the company accurately identify cities and towns that are in urgent need of healthcare facilities.
Apollo targets to have 50 Apollo-Reach hospitals in 5 years. The Hyderabad, south Indian company aims to increase the number of hospitals to 10 from the current three Apollo-Reach hospitals and the target by 2011.
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