Apollo launches new 250 bed hospital in Visakhapatnam

it currently has 11 cancer hospitals and will add nine more in the next two years.

Apollo Hospitals Group has launched its latest healthcare facility at Visakhapatnam which was built at a cost of Rs 150 crore. It was also building a 100-bedded cancer hospital in this port city and is expected to be ready in the next six months.

The new 250-bedded hospital, which offers multi-disciplinary high-end tertiary care, addresses the long felt health care void in the city and the region and will now start attracting patients from neighboring regions and states, said Pratap C Reddy, chairman of Apollo Group.

Apollo group already has hospitals at Kakinada, Nellore besides Visakhapatnam and it plans to do more, according to Reddy.

"We will be having a 300-bedded hospital with an investment of Rs 200 crore between Vijayawada and Amaravati, the upcoming capital city of the state and hoping to get clearance in a month's time," he told the media.

Explaining about the new initiatives, the Apollo Group chairman said they were bringing the first Proton therapy machine in whole of Asia to Chennai.

The group currently have 11 cancer hospitals and will add 9 more in the next two years.