Manipal Hospitals India

Manipal Hospitals is a chain of multi-specialty hospitals in India. It is founded by Dr. Tonse Madhav Ananth Pai in 1953, It is part of the Manipal Education system and Medical Group Its network is spread across 15 locations in India and it also holds an international presence through a branch in Malaysia named Manipal Hospitals Klang.
History.
In 1953 Dr. Tonse Madhav Ananth Pai founded Manipals Hospital. Dr. Pai was an Indian doctor, educationist and philanthropist awarded by Padma Shri by the Government of India in 1972. He also founded Manipal Education system and Kasturba Medical College, Manipal.
The first branch of Manipal Hospitals was started in 1991 in Bengaluru. The branch is a 600-bed Quaternary care facility and houses over 60 specialties. In 1997, Manipal Hospitals Mangalore was established, this 251-bed tertiary care hospital is named Kasturba Medical College, Manipal Hospital, which is India's first self-financing medical college.
In 2018, Former Indian cricketer, Rahul Dravid became the brand ambassador of Manipal Hospitals.
Manipal Hospitals used IBM Watson for Oncology in 2016. Watson is the first commercially available cognitive computing cloud platform that analyzes high volumes of data understands complex queries and proposes evidence based answers for them. Manipal Hospitals have become the first in the country and the second in the world to implement IBM Watson for Oncology, an AI technology for diagnosis and treatment of cancer.
In April 2021, Manipal Hospitals completed the acquisition of Columbia Asia chain of hospitals for . The acquisition made Manipal Hospitals the second largest multi-specialty hospital chain in India.