Apollo Hospitals’ Q2 profits up 63% on volume, online business growth
Live MintApollo Hospitals had a strong September quarter, with its consolidated net income growing 63% year-on-year to ₹379 crore, driven by volume growth in its healthcare services and a lessening of losses in HealthCo, its online pharmacy business. HealthCo, its omnichannel pharmacy business, which includes its online platform Apollo 24/7, also saw a robust growth of 17%. In HealthCo, the firm said it had been able to bring down Ebitda loss from ₹169 crore to ₹100 crore y-o-y in the online business this quarter. Also Read: Dr Reddys Laboratories Q2 Results Live: Profit Falls by 15.28% YoY “We see a requirement for high-end differentiated care such as proton beam therapy, T-cell therapy for cancer, as well as complex aortic and cardiac surgery coming out of Africa, CIS countries and these markets to India and to Apollo,” Dr Sasidhar told Mint.