Fortis Healthcare expects occupancies to grow as international patients rise above pre-pandemic level

Occupancies in hospitals could rise significantly with the number of international patients now higher than pre-pandemic levels, Dr Ashutosh Raghuvanshi, MD and CEO, Fortis Healthcare said on Thursday.

“Occupancy levels currently have come back to about 70 percent,” he told CNBC-TV18 and that he believes that there is no more pent-up demand in hospitals. “All the specialities have come back to a similar pattern as it was pre-pandemic level. So my belief is whatever pent up demand was there has already been taken care of. So whatever growth we are seeing today is true growth,” he explained.