Star Hospitals to add 80 beds

Hyderabad-based Star Hospital is planning to add 80 beds to its 120-bed facility hospital at Banjara Hills here in the next six-eight months.

“It will costs Rs 15-35 lakh per bed, including the infrastructure, and approximately Rs 12 crore investments will be required for setting up the extended 80-bed facility,” Gopichand Mannam, managing director of Star Hospitals, said.

The demand for better and quality healthcare is huge in Hyderabad as patients from across the country are coming here for treatment. “In view of this, we are planning to add an extended facility within the existing hospital by adding more beds,” he said.

 

The healthcare market in Andhra Pradesh was growing and other hospitals were are also on an expansion spree, he said, adding last year, the state had added approximately 1,000 beds.

HRUDAYA CURE
Hrudaya Cure A Little Heart Foundation, a Hyderabad-based non governmental organisation which was set up in 2005 by a group of corporate leaders including Mannam, has successfully completed 1,240 heart surgeries for congenial heart diseases (CHD) here and aims to do 700 such treatments in the coming year.

Around 2 million children are born globally with congenial heart diseases. And, nearly 80 per cent of the infants die due to their parents inability to afford treatment, Mannam added.

The cost of the treatment varies between Rs 200,000 and Rs 6 lakh depending on the complexity of the case. The foundation gets assistance from the International Child Heart Foundation and treats poor children (under 14 years) free of cost.

The success rate is 95 per cent. The chances of a patient requiring another operation is 10-12 per cent, he said.