Apollo Hospitals Group to set up health knowledge city

Chennai, Sep 18 :) The city-based Apollo Hospitals Group will be setting up a health knowledge city in Chittoor district of Andhra Pradesh, which will have schools to train medical and paramedical staff, a company official said Thursday.

"We have acquired 100 acres of land in Aragonda village to set up the Apollo Aragonda Health Knowledge City where we will house training schools for various medical streams, including nurses and paramedics," Pratap C. Reddy, executive chairman of the group, told reporters here.

Sangita Reddy, executive director of Apollo Hospitals group, said the knowledge city will be ready by 2012.

The schools in the city will offer a total of 45 courses that will be certified by Indira Gandhi National Open University (IGNOU).

"The course content will be jointly developed with IGNOU while the running of the classes will be the responsibility of the Apollo Hospitals Group," said IGNOU vice chancellor V.N. Rajasekharan Pillai.

--IANS