Weekend Special: A healthier future...

Weekend Special: A healthier future...

Radhieka Pandeya / New Delhi July 28, 2007

...but for whom, ask analysts, as investors and the corporate medical sector gear up to pour money into medical cities. Radhieka Pandeya does some crystal-gazing.

In August 1883, the quiet American city of Rochester came tumbling down under a tornado. As 24 people breathed their last, 40 others were left gasping for breath and medical care. The disaster gave birth to an idea, an idea that became a dream for Dr William Worrall Mayo