India’s highly diversified healthcare sector is an attractive investment avenue, with high growth rate recorded in new segments like telemedicine and medical tourism, besides hospitals, medical devices and equipment, health insurance, diagnostics, clinical trials, and the pharmaceuticals industries. India is now within the top five economies in the world and is witnessing rising incomes and rapid urbanization. These factors have given way to sedentary lifestyles, which are increasingly inducing diseases caused by high blood sugar, high cholesterol, obesity, alcohol consumption, etc. This has in turn popularized the concept of preventive healthcare, necessitating the provision of specialized healthcare services and establishment of super specialty hospital networks. Moreover, the outbreak of COVID-19 exposed major gaps in India’s healthcare capabilities, and highlighted massive investment opportunities for hospital infrastructure, insurance, pharmaceutical manufacturing and R&D, technology-enabled service industries, and human capital growth. | 