The heart of our endeavour is to bring quality healthcare at an affordable cost closer to the people we serve, delivered with care and compassion. While recognizing the importance of constant technology up gradation, we lay great focus on the men behind the machines. We strongly believe that healthcare is all about loving care rendered with a warm human touch. Recruiting, training and retaining highly skilled healthcare professionals who are compassionate is our greatest challenge and asset. Quality Assurance is another very important cornerstone of the organization.
Healthcare is now considered a sunshine sector, which has proved to be recession proof in turbulent times. The GCC and Indian healthcare markets together are projected to grow to a whopping US$ 150 Billion by 2020 from the present US$ 45 billion. We are gearing up to become one among the leaders in this geography by 2015. Aster, which consolidates our 4 key verticals catering to the middle income population, will be the key driver in the future of the Group, while brands like Medcare shall have opportunities in the premium segment.
Whilst healthcare is considered an industry with profits for sustainability of investments, maintaining the human face of this noble profession is the core. I strongly believe that profit should be a by-product and not a goal in healthcare. I also feel that healthcare and philanthropy are two sides of the same coin and as a responsible corporate, a helping hand to the under privileged in the society is as much a duty as a responsibility of all those who are active in this domain.
Knowledge is the future. In our quest for excellence, we shall be allocating significant resources to Medical Education and Research.
