TMI Healthcare Private Limited announced the successful completion of a strategic investment by Kris Gopalakrishnan’s Prathiti Investment Trust.
Bengaluru, NFAPost: Infosys cofounder Kris Gopalakrishnan’s Prathiti Investment Trust has made a strategic investment in TMI Healthcare which owns and operates People Tree Hospitals in Bengaluru.
TMI Healthcare owns and operates four multi-specialty hospitals named “People Tree Hospitals” in Bengaluru, including an exclusive psychiatry hospital in the city.
People Tree Hospitals with its teritiary flagship hospital in Yeshwanthpur has so far touched the lives of 2,00,000 plus people in the city with 40 plus specialities, state of the art operation theatre, well equipped neonatal paediatric and adult intensive care facilities led by a team of specialist doctors and support team of caregivers.
Expressing happiness over the investment, People Tree Hospitals Managing Director and CEO Dr Jothi S Neeraja said Prathithi’s investment and Gopalakrishna’s support will enable People Tree Hospitals to scale up and accelerate its journey.
“Our mission is to provide each and everyone the quality of health care we would want for ourselves, our children, parents, family and friends,” said Dr Jothi S Neeraja.
Prathiti Investment Trust, owned by Kris Gopalakrishnan, is a single-family office, investing in public markets, real estate and venture capital. Prathiti Investment Trust which started its journey in 2014 is focused on supporting entrepreneurship, technological advances and scientific research in India.
Commenting on the investment, Kris Gopalakrishnan said Pratithi is delighted to be part of People Tree’s journey of providing quality healthcare to communities it seeks to serve. Healthcare has to move in a very much more accelerated pace towards affordability, inclusiveness, quality and accessibility.
“Emerging and disruptive technologies such as machine learning, AI-based genomic interpretation, clinical research, digital interventions will need much faster adoption in the areas of preventive, curative, rehabilitative and palliative care,” said Kris Gopalakrishnan.
He also pointed out that Prathithi through its strategic investments in the past year in preventive, curative and palliative models of healthcare is committed to furthering the cause of good health and doing its best to elevate, transform and set standards of excellence in health care delivery by focussing on whole person’s care.
Pratithi Investment Trust has made around 9 investments. Their most recent investment was on Jun 30, 2021, when ki Mobility Solutions raised Rs 8.50 crore.It also made investments in RentoMojo, Curefit, Hungerbox, Bewakoof and CropIn.
Dr Upendra Kumar Kandluri has taken over as the Medical Director of People Tree Hospitals and Mr Swami D Swaminathan is the Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors of the company.
People Tree Hospitals was born on ‘Vijayadashami’ day in October 2013 with a bold Vision to Touch Move and Inspire a billion people. The vision focuses on the health care needs of the growing 1.2 plus billion people of our nation. Within a year of inception was awarded India’s most promising and valuable hospital by Pharma Leaders 2014.
The hospital also is certified by National Accreditation Board of Hospitals [NABH] Safe I for its safe infection control practices and NABH certified Diagnostic Laboratory, consecutively each year from its inception.
In the second year the hospital expanded with the birth of Raghavendra People Tree Hospitals with 50 beds; a secondary care centre serving as the first super specialty hospital for the region of Dasarahalli; Peenya; Jalahalli and beyond. The hospital soon earned the name of a preferred neighborhood hospital in the region.
People Tree Maarga, the state of the art exclusive psychiatry in-patient hospital with 80 beds caters to the diverse and complex conditions of the mind. This hospital built to International standards is the brainchild of highly skilled and specialised psychiatrists trained in the United Kingdom, who relocated to make PEOPLE TREE Maarga a reality.
People Tree Hospitals Meenakshi is the fourth branch of People Tree Hospitals located at the busy hub of Hanumanthnagar. This 100 bed hospital is well known for its intensive care specialties. The always full tertiary adult intensive care unit along with the busy 20 bed tertiary level Neonatal Intensive Care unit caters to hundreds of preterm and sick newborns from across Bangalore and its surrounding districts.
People Tree Foundation the charity wing of the hospital funds several surgeries and complex treatments for deserving patients completely free or at subsidized cost. In this regard within the first 2 years 100 complex surgeries were done free of cost in the PEOPLE TOUCH Programme. Subsequently, 300 such surgeries through PEOPLE TOUCH 2 programme. The hospital has received lot of media and public recognition and is ever grateful to its patients for beginning, this paradigm change in health care.
