Metropolis Plans to Add 800 Centers and 10 Labs by FY19 End

Diagnostic chain Metropolis Healthcare is planning to add 800 collection centers and around 10 laboratories by the end of next fiscal. The company currently has 150 labs with 1800 collection centers and processes over 4500 varieties of tests. As part of the company’s growth strategy, it would expand its geographical presence in North and Eastern parts of the country while growing in the South and West.

Expansion will be done through internal accruals. Metropolis is also planning to invest around `60 crore over the next 2-3 years in technology.

During the last year, the company has set up labs in Ludhiana, Khanna, Ghaziabad, Dhanbad. They have also added labs in Kolkata, Patna, and Delhi. The company is currently present in seven countries – India, Ghana, Kenya, Zambia, Uganda, Mauritius, and Sri Lanka. The interest is now on building dominance and market leadership in the places that the company is present. In Africa, they will keep growing, and are looking to enter one or more countries there.

The company had entered a public–private partnership (PPP) 3 months ago with National Aids Control Organization (NACO) for a 3-year project to organize collection of blood and testing for HIV at 560 locations across India. They bring the samples on a weekly basis and bring them to their lab in Mumbai and do the testing and give the report back to the concerned. Metropolis Healthcare conducts more than 30 million tests a year catering to over 20,000 laboratories, hospitals, nursing homes, and 2 lakh consultants. It offers comprehensive testing in the areas of genetics biochemistry, molecular oncology, anatomic pathology, microbiology, hematology, immunochemistry, among others.

“The business in North and East parts of India is growing quite fast. Punjab is big market for us. In Delhi also, we have done very well.”

Ameera Shah
Managing Director,
Metropolis Healthcare