Sterling Hospital is the Best Hospital in the city for the year 2007,according to the The WEEK magazine ( May 6, 2007). For its annual survey of India's hospitals, The WEEK commissioned market research firm Indian Market Research Bureau (IMRB). The survey - in 15 cities, involving 1239 specialists and 609 general practitioners - ranks the best hospitals in the cities. The hospitals get marks for the quality of treatment, doctors and infrastructure among other factors.

Sterling AddLife India Ltd today announced its alliance with the Adani Group's Mundra Port and SEZ Ltd. This initiative between Sterling AddLife and Adani Group will provide health care related impetus for the development of Mundra Port and SEZ one of the largest all-sector SEZ with a Sea port and Airport within the SEZ. This Hospital will enable Adani Group to realize its vision of making Mundra SEZ the most preferred destination for business, living and learning.

This 50 bed secondary care hospital will be set up by Sterling AddLife India Ltd. at a cost of rupees eighteen crores. The hospital will be expanded to accommodate 100 beds at a later date. This hospital will have mobile Intensive Care Unit on wheels with qualified medical and paramedical staff manning it for medical emergencies. A fully equipped state of art diagnostic laboratory and well equipped radiology department having computerized tomography (CT scan) machine with pathologist and radiologist for quick and accurate diagnosis will be operational at the hospital. Operation Theaters with advanced surgical equipments and sterile supply facility for carrying out range of surgical operations will form an important part of this hospital. The hospital will have well equipped physiotherapy section too.

This hospital will become nodal point for medi-care initiatives of Adani Foundation a charitable trust set up by the Adani family. The foundation at present is actively engaged in vaccination initiatives. On commissioning of this hospital the foundation will explore possibilities of providing prenatal and postnatal and child care facilities in and around Mundra. A Mobile Medical Van for extending primary health assistance to the villagers in and around Mundra is also being evaluated.

Mr. Sanjay Gupta, Director, MPSEZ, who signed the agreement, said "As a part of the agreement, Sterling AddLife will establish a secondary care hospital at Mundra to take care of health related needs of persons residing in and around the SEZ. The hospital will be able to extend emergency medical help by quickly ferrying medical experts or patients as we have an operational aerodrome for landing and take off of executive jets and helicopters."

Mr. S. Venkatraman, Managing Director, Sterling AddLife India Ltd. said "Sterling AddLife is pleased to partner with Adani Group in this gigantic SEZ project. We propose to bring high quality health care services to Mundra and in the process play a vital role in rapid growth of this SEZ. This initiative is part of our expansion plan to bring high quality medical care to different parts of Gujarat."

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Ltd. is the result of the integration of two of Adani Group's infrastructure projects to leverage the vast expertise acquired in logistics management; Gujarat Adani Port Ltd. and Mundra Special Economic Zone Ltd. The integration is in sync with Adani Group's mission of creating value for stakeholders by synergizing competencies.

Mundra Port and Special Economic Zone Limited, the new entity is developing and managing the largest privately developed port in the country and a multi-sector Special Economic Zone (SEZ) spread over 100 square kilometers in Kutch.

The port has been operational since 1998 and cargo volumes are anticipated to touch fifty million tonnes by 2010 from the present level of 18 million tonnes, comprising of solid, liquid, crude oil and container cargo in 2006 - 07.

The SEZ is envisaged as a multi sector, multi modal SEZ and is benchmarked with the best SEZs in the world. Its logistic advantage is the unparalleled rail, road, sea and air connectivity and the operational convenience afforded by the combination of Port and SEZ.

Adani Group was founded in 1988. Adanis are one of the fastest growing business houses in India and are the leaders in global commodity trading, development of infrastructure in the private sector and energy. Adanis have grown from being a trusted trading house to a diversified conglomerate and their business canvass includes, Edible Oil, Agro Products, Logistics, Power Generation, Coal, Oil and Gas Exploration, Gas Distribution, Real Estate, Ports, Special Economic Zones and IT enabled services. Their growth has been organic which has led to a synergy among different business units, making them more productive and competitive together. The Adani Group is engaged in continuously acquiring and assimilating knowledge to build core competencies, which is done by synergizing the diverse technical and managerial abilities of dynamic human resources and by benchmarking products and services against the best in the world. Synergizing competencies among other things have made the Group closely associated with the growing prowess of India in the world. The Group turnover has crossed INR 160 billion and is growing fast.

Sterling Hospital, owned and managed by Sterling AddLife India Ltd, is the leading hospital chain in Gujarat. It is engaged in providing high quality secondary and tertiary medical and surgical care in a host of critical specialties such as Cardiology and CVTS surgery, Neurology and Neuro-surgery, Nephrology and Kidney Transplant, GI Medicine and Surgery, Hematology, Oncology and Onco-surgery, Critical and Emergency Care, Trauma and Orthopedic, Neonatology as well as General Medicine and Surgery. Sterling has two multi-specialty tertiary care hospitals, one each at Ahmedabad and Vadodara and four satellite centers, one each at Kalol, Mehsana, Himmatnagar and Maninagar.

Sterling's high quality service attracts patients from Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Maharashtra and even from outside the country. Sterling proposes to cross the 1000-bed mark with additional state-of-the art hospitals planned at Rajkot, Surat and Mundra by 2008. Sterling is also focused on clinical research and medical education thro' DNB programs. As part of Sterling's ambitious growth plans, Actis, the well-known Private Equity Firm, has recently acquired a significant equity stake in Sterling AddLife India Ltd.