Bangladesh Evercare Hospital Chittagong set to open in April, 2021
Source：Dhaka Tribune
From：Taiwan Trade Center, Dhaka
Update Time：2021/03/30
Equipped with the latest technology and more than 500 best-in-class medical professionals, the Evercare Hospital Chittagong will provide quality, accessible healthcare
The port city can brace itself for quality and affordable healthcare, with the Evercare Group set to inaugurate its second hospital in Bangladesh next month.
The Evercare Group, which operates as an integrated healthcare delivery platform in emerging markets across Africa and South Asia including India, Pakistan, Kenya and Nigeria, entered Bangladesh last year by acquiring the majority stakes of STS Holdings, the owner of Apollo Hospital Dhaka.
The 470-bed hospital in Chittagong’s Ananna Residential Area was already under construction when the deal was struck. The value of the transaction remains undisclosed.
Equipped with the latest technology and more than 500 best-in-class medical professionals, the Evercare Hospital Chittagong will provide quality, accessible healthcare to improve patients’ outcomes for communities in and around the region, reads a statement by the group.
“As the first-ever internationally acclaimed hospital in the city, Evercare Hospital Chittagong will elevate the standard of medical care and set the benchmark for healthcare going forward,” said Massimiliano Colella, chief executive officer of Evercare Group.
The Evercare Hospital Chittagong will be built on the strong synergy between leading consultants and physicians, support services and leading technology at Evercare Hospital Dhaka and the group will implement these same best practices in Chittagong from inception, said Ratnadeep Chaskar, CEO of Evercare Hospital Dhaka.
The multi-disciplinary super-speciality tertiary care hospital in Chattogram features a 24/7 emergency department, state-of-the-art intensive care units and 27 specialities and subspecialties filling capacity gaps in the region.
The hospital spans 492,000 square feet and is larger in scale and capacity than its sister hospital Evercare Hospital Dhaka -- the only hospital in Bangladesh to get accreditation from the Joint Commission International (JCI).
The JCI accreditation and certification is recognised as a global leader for healthcare quality of care and patient safety.
And in the next one year, the number of professionals employed at the hospital will increase to 800, an Evercare official told Dhaka Tribune on condition of anonymity as he is not authorised to speak with media.
Evercare is unwilling to disclose the investment made in setting up the hospital.
Chittagong, which is the second-largest city in Bangladesh with a population of upwards of 8.6 million, has nine hospitals.
In 2019, the Chittagong Eye Infirmary and Training Complex Trust and the World Bank set up the Imperial Hospital, a 375-bed private hospital equipped with advanced medical equipment at Pahartali, for a cost of about Tk 900 crore.
The Evercare Group is wholly owned by The Evercare Health Fund, a $1 billion emerging markets healthcare fund managed by The Rise Fund, which is the impact investment platform of the US-based Texas Pacific Group.
The group’s portfolio includes 29 hospitals, 16 clinics, 57 diagnostics centres and two brownfield assets.
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