NEWS REVIEW – INDIA

[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

India News

NEWS REVIEW – BUSINESS

[This article was published in the August 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

Business News

Biotech sector grows by 20 pc

Fledgling biotechnology sector posted USD 2.56 billion (INR 103 billion) in revenue during 2007-08, registering 20 per cent growth over the previous fiscal at USD 2.1 billion, an industry survey revealed.

KLE Society bags Kolhapur health city project

Belgaum-based Karnataka Legal Education (KLE) Society has bagged the INR 500 crore

CBaySystems to invest $25 mn and up headcount in country

With a view to rapidly ramp up operations and expand its footprint in the country, CBaySystems, has drawn up a US$ 25 mn capex plan over the next two years.

Indians can now dial 108 for emergency

India is gradually moving to use of one emergency telephone number across the country, 108, on the lines of America’s 911 and Britain’s 999.

AyurVAID to set up hospitals in tier II cities, metros

Kerala-based AyurVAID hospitals will be setting up six hospitals in the coming year in tier II cities and metros, with an equity investment of INR 4.5 crore, provided by a non-profit venture fund Acumen, US.

MedPlus forays into Gujarat with plans of 200 stores

The organised retail health sector in Gujarat seems to be hotting up. After pharmacy and wellness chains of Apollo and Reliance, now Hyderabad-based MedPlus Health Services Pvt Ltd, one of the fastest growing chain of health network, is marking its foray into Gujarat by launching its pharmacies in Ahmedabad.

Govt to pump in INR 750 cr in GQ healthcare project

The government plans to invest INR 750 crore to develop health centres in partnership with health majors such as Apollo Group and trauma care centres like Emergency Management and Research Institute (EMRI), Hyderabad. And nearly 140 trauma care centres will be developed along the 6,500 km long north-south and east-west corridors of the four to six lane express highway.

Global Hospitals expanding in Karnataka

The hub and spoke model is increasingly being adopted to deliver high-end healthcare in smaller cities and one of the newest hospital chains to use this expansion route is the Global Hospital.

NEWS REVIEW – INDIA

[This article was published in the May 2008 issue of the eHEALTH Magazine (https://www.ehealthonline.org)]

India News

Hiranandani plans hospital chain; invest INR 500 cr

Hiranandani Constructions, promoted by billionaire Niranjan Hiranandani, is planning to set up a chain of hospitals in the country. The total investment in these projects could be around INR 500 crore.

Telemedicine links Africans to Indian expertise

Linked by a high-speed Internet connection, the doctors in Care Hospital in Hyderabad, India, study X-rays and laboratory results being transmitted by doctors from Black Lion Hospital in Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa. Flipping between charts, they use light pens to point out important features. They can see each other in windows on their screens, while medical charts fill the rest of the display.