Calcutta, June 27: After Apollo, the healthcare group headquartered in Chennai, set up clinics here, three more hospitals from the south are exploring the market for patients with at least one of them keen to set up a facility.

The chairman of Coimbatore’s KG Hospitals, K.G. Bakthavathsalam, said he is looking for a partner to start an eyecare hospital, KG Netralaya, in the city. “We get a huge number of patients from Calcutta in Coimbatore. The city needs super-speciality centres. At the moment, we are looking for partners for the project,” he said.

The KG group is conducting health camps in the districts. “I spoke to health minister Surjya Kanta Mishra and discussed the project. We are very happy with the outcome of the meeting,” Bakthavathsalam said.

Cardiologist K.M. Cherian, the chairman and chief executive of Chennai-based Frontier Lifeline, is also in the city to conduct medical camps.

“A lot of patients who came for the camps had been to our hospital. We get at least 10-12 cardiac patients from Calcutta in our hospital every day.” The group is toying with the idea of opening an information cell here.

Bangalore’s Manipal Hospital will conduct camps at Serampore, Asansol and Calcutta. A spokesman said the group does not have any immediate plan to set up a clinic here but is likely to conduct more camps in North Bengal, Midnapore and Burdwan.

The trio is here weeks after Delhi’s Escort Heart Institute conducted camps.