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Hyderabad , June 21

SIGMA Hospitals, a unit of the Hyderabad-based DBR Hospitals Pvt Ltd, is planning to expand by setting up two 100-bedded hospitals, a diagnostic centre and 50 telemedicine units across Andhra Pradesh.

Addressing presspersons while inaugurating a new hospital at Secunderabad, the Sigma Hospitals Chairman and Managing Director, Dr D. Krishna Kishore Reddy, said the plan is to complete all the expansion projects in the next 3-6 months.

The company has three hospitals — two in Hyderabad and Secunderabad and one at Tirupati — and also a diagnostics facility at Hyderabad. It has a telemedicine facility at Bhanswada in Nizamabad district. Sigma plans to set up hospitals at Nellore and Visakhapatnam and a modern diagnostic centre at Ameerpet in Hyderabad, Dr Reddy said.

While these facilities will be operational in the next six months, the hospitals group plans to set up 50 telemedicine centres covering all the major towns of the State in the next quarter. "The idea is to offer highly affordable healthcare services to common people at large. Our medical tariffs are over 50 per cent lower compared to corporate hospitals' charges. However, there would be no compromise on our quality of medical professionals and the latest equipment."

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