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Medanta targets teaching and secondary cities

Privately owned hospital group Medanta has announced it will open a multi-speciality 1,000-bed facility in the city of Bhubaneswar in Eastern India within three years, at a cost of between Rs 750 crore and Rs 1,000 crore ($113m to $150m). We speak to Dr Naresh Trehan, the group's founder and managing director to find out more about his business plan to target “under served” areas of the country, and open educational facilities which private hospitals were previously not allowed to have.

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