Chennai: Bangalore-based maternal care services brand Motherhood, run by Rhea Healthcare Pvt Ltd, has opened a facility in Chennai.
The 25,000 sq. ft, five-floor facility, set up at a cost of Rs 15 crore, has 35 beds, a laboratory and a scan centre.
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It has two operation theatres and a wing for post-delivery healthcare including programmes to prevent gestational diabetes among young mothers.
Founder and Chairman Mohammed Rehan Sayeed said the company is in the process of identifying land for two more facilities.
It has increased the bed count at its Bangalore facility, started a unit in Banjara Hills, Hyderabad and will open one in Sarjapura Road, Bangalore in January.
Sayeed, who had worked as a cardio-thoracic surgeon in Cleveland, US, before his returning to begin his entrepreneurial stint in India in 2011, says the idea was to introduce to India the standards of maternal healthcare he had observed in the US.
cost and package
On treatment costs, Motherhood figures between the nursing centres offering pregnancy services at a low-cost and the top multi-speciality hospitals, says CEO G. Rajagopal.
A Motherhood maternal care package, which includes regular check-ups and medicines from conception to post-natal healthcare, costs Rs 50,000; if the delivery involves a caesarean section procedure, it is Rs 60,000.
public-pvt partnership
Sayeed says the way forward for affordable healthcare in India is through the public-private partnership, for which Motherhood has submitted a proposal to the Tamil Nadu Government.
Rajagopal says Motherhood will take its services to the Government-run primary nursing centres through its CSR initiatives in six months.
The Chief Executive Officer, who has worked with mass media company AOL, Cairn Energy, and Eastern Foods, says, “Driving innovation and leveraging technology are the way forward” to keep costs down.
Actor Mammooty was present on the occasion. His son Dulquer Salmaan, an actor and businessman, is an investor in Rhea Healthcare.
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