Manappuram Health Care Limited (MHCL), a new venture of the Manappuram group of companies, will invest around Rs 1,000 crore over the next four to five years for setting up a chain of 50 sophisticated medical, dental and diagnostics clinics across south India.
The company will launch its first diagnostics centre and International Dental Hospital in Kaloor (Kochi) on December 10. KV Thomas, Union Minister of State for Agriculture, Food and Public Distribution, will inaugurate the new institutions.
The Kerala-based company operates under the MAcare brand. The new diagnostics Centre and dental hospital has come up over 17,000 sft, said VP Nandakumar, chairman of Manappuram group.
Addressing a press conference here on Wednesday, he said the centre would provide a triple test — ultrasound scan, mammogram and fine needle aspiration cytology — for early detection of breast diseases.
Equipped with a high performance mammography machine from GE Healthcare, this is the first such installation in Kerala. The centre also offers fully automated microbiology, biochemistry and pathology labs and digital x-ray.
A super speciality medical centre will also come up at the centre shortly that will offer services of expert doctors from all fields of medicine, including cardiology, nephrology, neurology and gastroenterology units.
The highlight here will be the laparoscopic day surgery centre, where operations in the abdominal and pelvic cavities can be performed using minimally invasive (keyhole) surgery.
