Fortis Healthcare and Fortis ICRS to invest Rs 150 crore to set robotic surgery centres

NEW DELHI: Fortis Healthcare India and its joint venture partner International Centre for Robotic Surgery will invest up to Rs 150 crore to set up around ten robotic surgery centres across India in the next 24 months.

"The centres will be set up at an investment between Rs 100 crore to Rs 150 crore. This would entail both the training cost and the cost of hardware," Fortis Healthcare India CEO Aditya Vij told PTI.

Both the partners have equal stake in the JV named Fortis ICRS, which today opened the robotic surgery centre at Fortis Escort Heart Institute in Delhi.

The centres will be set up across Fortis Hospitals in Bangalore, Gurgaon, Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata and in tier II cities including Mohali and Jaipur, he added.

Fortis ICRS centres will offer robotic surgeries in cardiac, thoracic, urology, gynaecology, general, head and neck and orthopaedics.

The heathcare group which is on a consolidation drive had yesterday said that it will pay USD 665 million (around Rs 3,270 crore) to acquire Singapore based Fortis Healthcare International Pte from a firm owned by its promoters, the Singh brothers.

After the consolidation, the combined network will have over 74 hospitals, with more than 12,000 beds, 580 primary care centres, 188 day care speciality centres, 190 diagnostic centres and a base of over 23,000 employees.

Fortis Healthcare India has 66 hospitals and 190 diagnostic labs across India.

Shares of Fortis Healthcare India were today trading at Rs 130.55 in the afternoon trade on BSE, up 1.24 per cent from its previous close.