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Vikram Hospital, Bangaluru
Mysore-based Vikram Hospital to start a hospital in the garden
city
 When
did construction start: March, 2009.
Time of commissioning: April 2010.
Promoters: Dr Vikram’s family, friends, associates
and ICICI Ventures.
Other hospitals of the group: Vikram Network of Tertiary
Care Hospitals across Karnataka— Mysore (five hospitals), Mandya and Tumkur
( one each).
Total number of beds: Over 200.
Number of beds to be commissioned in first phase:
Over 175.
Artistic impression of the hospital |
Budget (inclusive of cost of land, construction and equipment):
Rs 90 crore.
Type of investment: Equity and debt.
Corporate or Trust Hospital: Corporate.
Single specialty or multi-specialty: Multi-speciality.
Total area of the land: About one acre.
 "Central
Bangaluru needs a high quality multi-speciality hospital"
- Dr S Vikram
MD
Vikram Hospital
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Total square feet area of the hospital: 1.5 lakh square
feet.
Centrally air-conditioned: Yes.
Any subsidy taken from the Government: No.
Reason for choosing Bangaluru: Says Dr S Vikram, MD,
Vikram Hospital, "Central Bangaluru needs a high quality multi-speciality
hospital."
Vision and mission: "Our vision is to be an honest
and humane hospital. Our mission is to make advanced tertiary care available,
accessible and affordable," says Dr Vikram.
USP of the project: Team of doctors, technique applied,
technology adopted and treatment offered.
About technology that is latest in the area: Siemens
Artis Zee, 30x40 detector cathlab with built-in CT, in a Cath Operating Room
environment, setting new benchmarks and standards for interventions across the
entire human body.
Environment-friendly measures: Green technology for
CSSD (formaldehyde not EO gas), building materials and AC qualify for LEED certification.
Use of IT: "It would be a truly paperless hospital,
with in-house team driven ERP," says Dr Vikram.
Number of clinicians and non-clinicians to be hired:
100 clinicians and 500 non-clinicians.
Ways to market it: By focusing on doctor relationship,
patient centricity, user experience, resulting in word of good mouth publicity.
Future plans of the Bangaluru project and of the group:
Speciality spokes spread across Bangaluru and tertiary care hospitals across
Karnataka.
rita.dutta@expressindia.com
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