Apollo to set up 25-30 maternity centres
TO TAP the Rs 4,500-crore maternity care market, India's largest healthcare company Apollo Hospitals plans to set up a chain of 25-30 exclusive birth facility centres, designed as homelike wellness centres. The centres will come up over 2-3 years. Apollo Health and Lifestyle (AHL), a subsidiary of Apollo Hospitals that also runs Apollo Clinic chain, will set up these centres across the country. AHL runs two such centres, called Cradle, in Bangalore and Gurgaon, which was started in 2006 as a pilot project.