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KPC Healthcare To Set Up Medical City In W Bengal, Company Will Invest Rs 1,000 CroreBy Nishant, Section Real Estate
KPC Healthcare Services, a Nasdaq-listed $1.6 billion healthcare company, has finalised plans to set up an integrated healthcare city in West Bengal. The proposed venture will come up beside its upcoming private medical college in Jadavpur, Kolkata. The company will invest some Rs 1,000 crore for this integrated facility.
KPC Healthcare Services is the flagship firm of California-based KPC Group promoted by NRI doctor, K P Chaudhuri. The company runs four hospitals in southern California. Incidentally, the group also intends to set up a private university in West Bengal for which it has already acquired some 300 acres at Sonarpur. Talking to newspersons, KPC Group chairman K P Chaudhuri said the healthcare city will have a 750-bed medical college, 260-bed multi-speciality hospital, 400-bed super speciality hospital, an infectious disease hospital, medical information technology centre and a medical mall which will sell medicines and other healthcare consumable. Click On "Full Story" For More...
“We had acquired the defunct K S Roy TB Hospital in Jadavpur from the state government. The medical college has already come up on 25 acres and rest of the facilities will come up over some 23 acres lying vacant. We have already invested Rs 300 crore for the college and will invest another Rs 1,000 crore for the whole facility,” said Mr Chaudhuri.
The medical college has received Medical Council of India approval and will start its first session in September 2008. “There will be 150 seats. There will also be a dental, para-medical and inter-disciplinary college as part of the campus which will offer specialised courses in areas like bio-medical engineering and hospital management,” said Mr Chaudhuri. The admission process and fee structure for the medical college will be finalised in consultation with the West Bengal government. “Some of the students will be selected through West Bengal JEE and we will also start our own selection process ,” Mr Chaudhuri said. Source: Economic Times 23/Jun/2008
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