Vasan Health Care (VHC), one of India’s fastest growing healthcare companies, announced its expansion plans for a pan India operations, by adding 28 eye care centres in East, West and North India.
Vasan Eye Care Hospital (A VHC Enterprise) which is a network of premier institution of eye care hospitals in South India is bringing its expertise to North, East & West. The eye care network has become the world’s largest eye care provider, according to a market assessment by Frost & Sullivan.
The chain of super specialty eye care hospitals has been catering to over 6 million patients every year. With a network of over 80 eye care hospitals, 15 Dental clinics spread across Tamil Nadu, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh, Kerala & Pondicherry, Vasan Health Care plans to expand its presence across the country.
Chairman and the managing director of the VHC Dr A M Arun told newsmen that by June 2011, Vasan Eye Care Hospital will be launching 28 eye care hospitals in the Cities of Delhi (4), Kolkata (5), Mumbai (4), Surat, Ahmedabad, Baroda, Rajkot, Nagpur, Pune, Kolhapur, Nashik, Amritsar, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Chandigarh, Indore, Bhopal and Bhubaneshwar. The network also is opening up its operations in Dubai and Colombo by April 2011 and in Africa, Oman, Abu Dhabi, Sharjah and Doha in the next couple of months.
“We are confident of creating success with our pan India operations and providing world class super specialty eye care services in other parts of the country.” Dr. Arun added.
Vasan Eye Care’s first hospital was established in 2002 in Trichy. The Vasan Eye Care network currently has 500+ ophthalmologists and over 7500+ CARE team to provide individual attention and care to all patients. Towards its vision to bring quality eye care within the reach of every Indian, the network has been expanding rapidly. The eye care network aims to have 125 hospitals in all by the end of 2011.
Today Vasan Eye Care Hospital has 80 hospitals and 15,000 footfalls per day. Vasan Medicals – started over 60 years ago with a network of 50 pharmacy outlets across South Tamil Nadu has a footfall of over 20,000 per day while Vasan Medical Centres has seven specialty labs and day care diagnostic centres and more recently 15 Vasan Dental Clinics. The group has also plans to venture into IVF, Skin & cosmetology, stand alone optical stores, urology thereby becoming the world’s largest day care service provider.