The Hyderabad-based Global Hospitals Group, one of the fastest growing
super specialty care and multi-organ transplantation hospitals in India,
is lined up to open three new hospitals in Mumbai, Kolkata and
Bhubaneswar respectively by April next year. It is also planning to open
one in Delhi

In a major expansion move in its 12-year old
history, the group, which already has its presence in Hyderabad, Chennai
and Bangalore, will make a total investment of Rs.700
crore in the upcoming hospitals in Bhubaneswar Mumbai and Kolkata. The
Mumbai facility will have a bed capacity of 400 beds, Bhubaneswar and
Kolkata 300 each. Currently the group has a bed capacity if 1700 beds
with three major healthcare hubs and nine satellite facilities. All the
upcoming facilities will have a special focus on organ transplantation.
It will also have facilities for latest technologies such as stem cell
therapy. At present the group has strength of total 500 doctors in the
existing hospitals in Bangalore, Chennai and Hyderabad.

In a
telephonic conversation with Chronicle Pharmabiz, Dr Ravindranath, CMD,
Global Hospitals Group, said, "The new hospitals in Mumbai, Kolkata and
Bhubaneswar will be ready by next April. We have already raised funds
for the same and construction work is in progress." Commenting on the
Chennai Global Hospital he said that it is the largest facility of the
group with a bed capacity of 600 beds and has capacity to add 400
additional beds.

According to group, the Chennai and Bangalore
hospitals of the group have received National Accreditation Board for
Hospital and Healthcare Providers (NABH) and National Accreditation
Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories (NABL) accreditations.
The NABH team has recently inspected the Hyderabad facility of the
group. It claimed that it is the sole hospital in the country that is
doing liver transplantation on regular basis. The Hyderabad facility has
already conducted more than 100 liver transplantations. It is also
engaged in heart transplantation. It is also planning to do
transplantation of lungs and other organs. Sources added that the
Bangalore facility of the group is doing stem cell therapy for brains.