Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Ltd is planning to open 11 more hospitals in the next fiscal, which would add 2,000 beds to the existing 8,800 beds, the Financial Express reported on Friday.
The addition of new hospitals is part of the company's on going expansion plan worth Rs18 billion, the paper reported citing its chairman Pratap C Reddy.
There is a deficit of one lakh hospital beds in the country, Reddy told the paper.
"We are looking to add about 900 beds in the next six weeks in Bhubaneswar, Lavasa, Kolkata and Secunderabad," the paper quoted Reddy as saying.
The company is also looking to enter medical education sector, the paper reported.
The company is looking at setting up a global health academy, which would include an under graduate medical college with an initial intake of 200 students and could cost about Rs10 billion, Reddy told the paper.
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