Apollo Hospitals, India’s leading healthcare firm, on Friday said it plans to hire nearly 23,000 employees in the next 3-4 years to support its Rs 1,800 crore expansion plans.
Apollo will also increase its bed-capacity to 12,000 from the current 9,000 beds by 2015, for which it plans to have a total workforce of 85,000 employees, group executive director (operations), Ms Sangita Reddy, said. “Our workforce is growing. We are employing at a rate of 15 per cent per year and currently we have 62,000 team members,” Ms Reddy said on the sidelines of a CII event here. “In the next 3-4 years, we will have 12,000 beds and our workforce will be close to 85,000 employees,” Ms Reddy said. The proposed expansion plan, estimated to entail a total investment of Rs 1,800 crore, will lead to an increase of about 23,000 people in the company’s workforce.