A guide for every patient
Every patient will have a personal guide from admission to discharge, to help with each test, bill and appointment.
Making cancer care accessible outside India’s big cities.
A 225-bed cancer hospital being built in Mysuru, led by Dr Shashi Baliyan, founder of ClearMedi.
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The need
Since 1990 the world's cancer death rate has fallen 24%. India's has risen 21%.
3 in 5
Indians diagnosed with cancer die of it. In the US it is 1 in 4.
794
radiotherapy machines in India, against at least 1,585 needed, by ICMR's own count.
8 Mn
people live in the five districts around Mysuru that the hospital will serve.
Why Charkos Healthcare
16 years taught me that outside the metros, the cancer machine never waits for patients.
70–120
patients a day were treated on ClearMedi’s cancer machines, in the smaller cities it served.
791
radiotherapy machines short: India has 794 and needs at least 1,585, by ICMR’s own count.
The hospital
225 beds in Mysuru, on the campus where Charkos trains nurses.
Guides trained on the campus
The guides are nursing students from the college on our campus: 700 today, and about 2,000 once the hospital opens.
No patient turned away for money
A charitable fund is being set up so that no patient at the hospital is turned away for money.
Founder
Dr Shashi Baliyan trained as a doctor (MBBS, Pt. B.D. Sharma PGIMS, Rohtak) and holds a master's in hospital management from the Nuffield Institute of Health, University of Leeds.
He spent 20 years in UK healthcare, advising NHS hospitals with Accenture. He has spent the last 16 years taking cancer care to India's smaller cities.
He founded ClearMedi in 2010. It grew into a 1,000-bed cancer hospital chain, including a 100-bed cancer hospital in Mysuru, and in 2023 became Morgan Stanley's first Indian healthcare acquisition.
- 2010
Founded ClearMedi, a cancer hospital chain.
- 2014
ClearMedi ran cancer machines in 22 hospitals across 8 cities.
- 2018
Opened ClearMedi's 100-bed cancer hospital in Mysuru.
- 2023
ClearMedi became Morgan Stanley's first Indian healthcare acquisition. It runs 1,000 beds today.
- Now
Building Charkos Healthcare, a 225-bed cancer hospital in Mysuru.
The Charkos group
Part of a group that already serves hospitals in India and the UK.
Charkos trains nurses for hospitals in the UK and Germany, runs a nursing and allied-health college in Mysuru, and supplies linen to hospitals in Delhi.
Charkos Global
Nurse training and recruitment
Has trained 6,000+ nurses for UK NHS hospitals, HCA UK and Germany. HCA's UK hospitals and 40+ NHS trusts recruit nurses through Charkos, which is on all 5 lots of the NHS's £150 Mn international recruitment framework.
charkosglobal.comCharkos Group of Institutions
Nursing and allied health education, Mysuru
A nursing and allied-health college on the hospital's campus, with 700 students today.
charkos.inShubhram
Hospital linen
Serves 80+ Delhi hospitals, including Sir Ganga Ram.
People
Leadership and advisers
Leadership
Advisers
Dr Munish Gairola
Head of Radiation Oncology, Rajiv Gandhi Cancer Institute, Delhi
Dr Guglielmo Brayda di Soleto
Founder, Ergéa, a radiotherapy group with 94 machines in 4 countries
Prof. Jens Scholz
Chief Executive, University Hospital Schleswig-Holstein, a German university hospital with 16,000 staff
David Highton
Chair, Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust; NHS chief executive for 12 years
Prof. Dave Thomas
Director of Nursing, Somerset NHS Foundation Trust
Contact
For enquiries about Charkos Healthcare, please write to us.