Why healthcare ideas need profitability, Currae's Patni and Mahipal explain

Currae HealthTech Fund, a Rs  1-billion one led by Apoorva Patni, is an investment house keen to build a footprint in the health technology sector. Ajay Mahipal, investment head of Currae, joins Patni to discuss why the technology needs to be profitable to sustain and the challenges it faces. Edited excerpts from an interview with Romita Majumdar.
 
How is Currae leveraging investments in health care?
 
Patni: Health care is a compulsory consumption, apart from education; unlike education, it can be profitable, theoretically. Within health care, we focus on uni-speciality boutique hospitals, including gynaecology, ophthalmology and elective orthopaedics. We