Fortis Healthcare Limited, one of the largest private healthcare companies in India and a Ranbaxy promoted company, has finalized plans to set up its seven-star multi super-speciality flagship hospital, Fortis Healthcity.

Spread over 10.7 acres, the ten-storeyed Fortis Healthcity will focus on specialties of oncology, trauma, paediatrics, MCH (La Femme), cosmetology, neuro sciences, cardiac sciences, genito-urinary diseases and minimal access surgery (day care), besides offering a complete range of multi-specialty services in all disciplines, a Fortis press release stated.

The multi-specialty Healthcity will have 700 patient beds. The Fortis group will be investing Rs 500 crore in the project, which is the first of its kind in North India, the release added.

Shivinder M Singh, CEO & MD, Fortis Healthcare, said, "Fortis Healthcity is going to be our flagship hospital. It is a dream-come-true for the Fortis-Ranbaxy group. We remain committed to our mission of providing people with quality medical care."

Fortis Healthcare Limited, a Ranbaxy promoter group company, was incorporated in the year 1996. It was founded on the vision of creating an integrated healthcare delivery system. Based in Delhi, FHL, which acquired Escorts Heart Institute and Research Centre Limited in September 2005, has operations in Delhi, Navi Mumbai, Noida, Mohali (Chandigarh), Amritsar, Faridabad, Raipur and Srinagar. It currently has a network of 11 hospitals primarily in North India and 16 satellite and heart command centres, including one heart command centre in Afghanistan.