“Each of the proposed centres, with 40-50 beds, typically entails an investment of between Rs 15 crore and Rs 18 crore,” Mohammed Rehan Sayeed, executive director of Rhea Healthcare, told Business Standard.
The company has already opened a women healthcare and birth care centre each in Chennai and Bangalore through a mix of debt and equity.
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It recently opened its third centre in Hyderabad, utilising a part of the Rs 85 crore that it had raised in a first round of funding from Hyderabad-based private equity fund Peepul Capital in March this year.
The company is planning to establish a centre of excellence (CoE) in Bangalore shortly, according to him.
“The 50,000-sft CoE will focus on setting standards of clinical excellence, devising new procedures and identifying better and early diagnosis of some diseases,” he said, adding the company had garnered revenues of Rs 20 crore last year and was expecting to double it this financial year.