Beams Hospitals, a chain of dedicated Minimal Access Surgery (MAS) procedures, has invested around Rs.8 crore to open its fifth facility in the country at Bangalore. By the end-of-the-year, another four centres would come up at Chennai, New Delhi, Pune, Ahmedabad and Kolkata taking the total number of centres to 10.


The Hospital is promoted by Dr Manju and Dr Rakesh Sinha. The MAS chain which kicked off operations in 1994 with its first facility at Mumbai, went on open a facility at Amritsar in 2008. After it received a fund infusion from Ambit Pragma in March 2010 (amount not disclosed) to foray into Indore and Hyderabad.


“This year, Beam Hospitals opened a centre in Bangalore, going by the awareness and importance of healthcare among the people in the city. It was also easy to have access to trained specialists from here,” stated Krishnamurthy, CEO, Beams Hospitals.


Bangalore is also known as the healthcare hub and has several centres performing MAS and day care procedures including Nova Medical Centre.


“In the case of Beams Hospitals, its strength would be advanced laparoscopic procedures and the two decades of surgical experience by Dr Sinha who would lead the team of surgeons. Some of the surgical interventions offered are gynaecology, general surgery, urology and arthroscopy,” he added.


The facility, which is a 20-bed centre with two operation theatres, a labour room and waiting area with a seating capacity for 30 patients. It will attract 40 per cent day care patients and 60 per cent in-patient admissions for a duration of one to three days. “This is crucial going by the patient comfort after surgery and need for medical supervision too,” he stated.


Beams was conceptualized to provide MAS which is viewed as a comfortable procedure, stated Dr Sinha who also the recipient of Rajiv Gandhi Rashtriya Ekta Award for outstanding professional achievements. He is also listed in the Guinness Book of world records for removing the largest uterus weighing 4.1 kgs through laparoscopy procedure.