With a number of healthcare facilities across India and different countries, BR Life has carved a niche for itself in the healthcare space, providing holistic and integrated healthcare services at patients’ doorstep. It is leaving no stone unturned to replicate the finest healthcare delivery model across the globe where people at large would be served with best care in terms of quality and affordability, says Col Hemraj Singh Parmar, Group CEO, BR Life, in conversation with Mukul Kumar Mishra of Elets News Network (ENN).
Q BR Life is known for serving people with finest healthcare services, leveraging modern technologies and innovative practices. Tell us about its mission and vision.
Dr BR Shetty is founder and chairman of NMC Healthcare which has more than 200 healthcare facilities across 25 different countries. It is the 3rd biggest healthcare group in the world, listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a FTSE 100 company with a market capitalisation of close to $11 billion.
Dr BR Shetty, the founder of BR Life hails from Udupi, Karnataka. With the intent to improve healthcare delivery system and helping people get access to the finest healthcare facilities cost-effectively, he went to the UAE. The objective was to replicate the finest delivery model in India and across the globe with the founding of BR Life, a path he had already treaded with excellence.We have a hospital in Egypt called Alexandria NMC Hospital and recently we acquired two more hospitals in Afghanistan. BR Life has envisioned expanding healthcare business pan-India. We have one hospital each in Bhubaneswar, Thiruvananthapuram, Bengaluru, Udupi (PPP) and Raipur.
In addition, we have one 400 bedded multi-supers pecialty hospital each under construction in Udupi (Karnataka) and Varanasi (UP). The Government had provided land for the Mother & Child Hospital in Udupi (PPP). We have come up with $2 billion Medicity project in Amravati, the new capital city of Andhra Pradesh near Vijayawada. It would be spread over 100 acres. We have planned a medical college, nursing college, dental college, 1000+ bedded quaternary care hospital, five-star hotel, mall, school, residential areas and virtually everything that should be there in a medicity. We have acquired 25 acres of land for construction of the medical college in Kollar.
This story is from the April 2019 / Volume 14 - Issue 4 edition of eHEALTH.
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