Fortis Healthcare, India’s fastest growing chain of hospitals, has decided to to set up a Cardiac Centre at Deen Dayal Upadhyaya (Coronation) Hospital at Dehradun under a Public Private Partnership (PPP) with the Government of Uttarakhand. The state-of-the-art facility would be the first comprehensive cardiac care facility in Dehradun. The move is in line with Fortis’ strategy of penetrating into India’s tier II cities to provide high levels of clinical quality and compassionate patient care. The addition of this facility takes the Fortis network to a total of 55 hospitals with over 8,000 beds across the country.

Under the arrangement, Fortis will invest in infrastructure and technology. The proposed facility will have high end CCU, cath lab, cardiac OT, non invasive diagnostic lab and intensive care unit for cardiac surgery.

The initial phase of the contract shall be for a period of 10 years. The facility is expected to become operational by November 2011 and will fill a void in the healthcare infrastructure of the state capital of Uttarakhand.

Commenting on the new affiliation, Ashish Bhatia, regional director, Fortis Healthcare, said, “We are pleased to join hands with the Government of Uttarakhand and look forward to serving the people of the state in our distinctive patient-centric manner. This is one of several partnerships that Fortis has with various government agencies and we look forward to many such more public private partnerships, which will bring quality healthcare to those that most need it.”

Dr Asha Mathur, director general, Health Services, Government of Uttarakhand said, “We are pleased to join hands with Fortis Healthcare who are the leaders in Cardiac care in India. With this partnership, we are confident that the people of Dehradun will benefit immensely and the high quality services from Fortis will help save precious lives and improve the healthcare eco-system in the city”.

Fortis Healthcare is committed to clinical excellence and patient-centric healthcare, which is manifest in hospital design, patient services, medical programmes and the compassionate approach of medical and non-medical hospital staff. Fortis commissioned its first hospital in 2001 at Mohali, near Chandigarh, and has expanded its operations to become a network with an over 8,000 bed capacity across 55 hospitals (includes 7 projects in pipeline).