Partners

APG has been working with Medica Synergie from India on the delivery of various medical aspects of its hospitals. Going forward, APG will continue to use Medica Synergie and other similar medical partners of international calibre to design, deliver, operate and manage its facilities.

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MEDICA SYNERGIE PVT. LTD. (“Medica”) is the largest integrated healthcare provider in Eastern India serving a catchment population of over 450 million. The group focuses on providing strategic inputs and technical assistance to the healthcare sector on both Demand and Supply sides of Health System Policy, Planning, Research and Implementation. Medica owns and operates its own facilities (2,400 beds across 13 facilities, where over 2,500,000 patients have been treated till date), in addition to providing turnkey consultancy services from feasibility studies to design to manpower planning through to commissioning.

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Founded in 2006, Medica has in a short span of time established itself as the leading hospital chain in East India with a strong brand recall.  It provides affordable, high-end & quality Multi-Specialty Tertiary/Secondary Care services targeted at the burgeoning middle-income population of Eastern and North Eastern states of the country and neighboring countries like Bangladesh, Myanmar, Nepal and Bhutan.  It is the largest chain of hospitals in East India with 4 tertiary care hospitals and 3 secondary care hospitals. Strong opportunity and potential for upgrading each of the secondary care facilities to tertiary care in the next few years.

Medica has one of the most experienced and entrepreneurially-minded management teams in Indian healthcare, with a core team that has worked together for over 16 years. It has a strong, established & committed set of doctors – with one of the lowest attrition rates in the industry and a proven ability to attract and retain the best clinical talent.

The Medica team comprises over 4500 healthcare professionals with a deep domain knowledge of healthcare enterprise planning and management.  The team has over 1500 man-years of experience of planning well over 6 million square feet across 75 hospitals and has managed over 45 hospitals in India and abroad.  Medica has practical insights in implementing quality management systems in 150 hospitals and has developed India’s largest community-based Health Insurance Scheme towards making healthcare more affordable to 5 million people in India.  It has also established tele-medicine facilities across 100 sites across Asia to deliver healthcare to a wider population.  Medica already treats a large number of patients from the African continent and also trains several African doctors at its facilities in India.

The Medica team has worked on healthcare facilities across all of India, and also in international markets including Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Bangladesh, Nepal, Yemen and Afghanistan.

In a typical year at its owned hospitals, Medica treats over 400,000 patients, admits over 50,000 patients, and carries out over 1100 cardiac surgeries, over 300 joint replacements, over 1200 neurosurgeries and over 7500 Cath-lab procedures.

Medica’s owned and managed flagship facility is a 500-bed multi-specialty in Kolkata, India.

At its 13 facilities comprising 2,400 beds, in an average year Medica typically:

• treats over 400,000 patients

• carries out over 50,000 dialysis procedures

• carries out over 7,500 Cath-Lab procedures

• performs over 1,100 Cardiac surgeries

• performs over 1,200 Neuro surgeries

• carries out several hundred organ transplants

• carries out over 300 joint replacements

Medica has an extremely active consultancy division that provides turnkey design solutions focusing on functionality and optimum space utilization through environmentally friendly and energy efficient buildings.  These designs are all in compliance with international medical facility accreditations such as JCI.  The division offers complete services including market studies, architectural planning, equipment planning, human resource planning, project management and commissioning assistance, development of hospital information systems and operational services post-commissioning. 

The combination of APG and its medical partner therefore brings to bear an entrepreneurial business group that is already committed to healthcare in Africa and has the proven ability to establish both greenfield hospitals/healthcare systems and also to develop profitable businesses across sectors often in challenging environments.  Through Medica’s team of architects, engineers, hospital and equipment planners, interior designers, quality controllers, clinical experts and Hospital Information Systems experts, a turnkey ability to establish new hospitals from the planning phase through to commissioning and thereafter throughout the operations phase is provided.