GPT Healthcare Limited was originally incorporated as ‘Jibansatya Printing House Private Limited’, a private limited company under the Companies Act, 1956 on August 17, 1989 at Kolkata, West Bengal. The name of the Company was subsequently changed to ‘GPT Healthcare Private Limited’ so that the name of the Company is in consonance with the main objects of the Memorandum of Association in relation to the proposed business activities to be carried out by the Company. A fresh certificate of incorporation was issued by the RoC on March 31, 2005. Thereafter, pursuant to a special resolution passed by its shareholders on September 3, 2021, the Company was converted to a public limited company and its name was changed to ‘GPT Healthcare Limited’. A fresh certificate of incorporation consequent to change of name was issued by the RoC on September 15, 2021.

GPT Healthcare is one of the key regional corporate healthcare companies in Eastern India in terms of number of beds and hospitals as of Fiscal Year 2023. The Principal activities of the company include operation of multidisciplinary private hospitals and pharmacies. The company operates a chain of mid-sized full service hospitals under the brand and provides integrated healthcare services, with a focus on secondary and tertiary care. As of September 30, 2023, the company operates four multispecialty hospitals in Dum Dum, Salt Lake and Howrah in West Bengal and Agartala in Tripura. It offers a comprehensive range of healthcare services across many specialties and super specialties, including internal medicine and diabetology, nephrology (including renal transplants), laparoscopic and general surgery, gynaecology and obstetrics, critical care, gastroenterology, orthopaedics and joint replacements, interventional cardiology, neurology, neurosurgery, paediatrics, and neonatology. Each of its hospitals also provides integrated diagnostic services and pharmacies that cater to its patients. 

The company strategically focuses on the relatively under-penetrated healthcare market in Eastern India where it has presence in three cities which has provided it an understanding of regional nuances, patient culture and the mindset of medical professionals and where there is under-penetration of quality and affordable healthcare services. 

Business area of the company

The company is engaged in the business of providing healthcare services. The company operates a chain of mid-sized full service hospitals under the brand and provides integrated healthcare services, with a focus on secondary and tertiary care.

Awards, accreditations or recognitions

• 2016: Surgical Review Corporation accredited its hospital in Salt Lake, West Bengal as Centre for Excellence-Metabolic / Bariatric Surgery.
• 2020: National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories accredited its Dum Dum Hospital with ISO 15189:2012 for ‘Medical Laboratories - Requirements for Quality and Competence’.
• 2020: ILS Hospitals and the Company were awarded the ‘Sanmarg Business Award 2020’ in the category of ‘Medium Scale Services & Trade’.
• 2020: National Board of Exams provided provisional accreditation to the department of Minimal Access Surgery at its hospital in Salt Lake City, West Bengal to provide post graduate training facilities for FNB - Minimal Access Surgery Programme.
• 2021: National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers provided a certificate of accreditation to its Dum Dum Hospital for complying with NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals.
• 2021: National Accreditation Board for Hospitals and Healthcare Providers provided a certificate of accreditation to its Agartala Hospital for complying with NABH Accreditation Standards for Hospitals.
• 2021: Its Agartala Hospital was awarded the ‘AHPI Award 2021’ in ‘Excellence for Community Engagement’ from the Association of Healthcare Providers (India).
• 2021: ILS Hospitals was awarded the ‘Iconic Healthcare Summit & Awards 2021’ by Topgallant Media.
• 2022: Its Salt Lake Hospital was awarded and received a certificate of honour for ‘Excellence in Customer Care & Support’ at the ‘ABP Ananda Swashthya Samman 2022’.
• 2022: ILS Hospitals was awarded and received a certificate of honour for ‘Outstanding Hospital Chain at the ‘ABP Ananda Swasthya Samman 2022’.
• 2023 National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories accredited its Agartala Hospital with ISO 15189:2012 for ‘Medical Laboratories - Requirements for Quality and Competence’.

History and milestones

• 1989: Incorporation of the Company.
• 2000: Company started the hospital business in Salt Lake, West Bengal.
• 2005: Tantia Medical Services Private Limited sold its nursing home business to the Company on a going concern basis.
• 2008: Company signed lease agreement for its multi-specialty Agartala Hospital.
• 2011: Commissioned its Agartala Hospital with a capacity of 205 beds with a Nursing School.
• 2013: Commissioned its Dum Dum Hospital.
• 2016: Its Dum Dum Hospital received permission to provide kidney transplantation service.
• 2019: Commissioned its Howrah Hospital.
• 2021: Initiated B.Sc Nursing Programme with an intake capacity of 45 students in its Agartala Hospital.
• 2021: Signed a lease agreement for a new hospital in Ranchi on September 17, 2021.
• 2023: Signed a memorandum of understanding for the construction and finishing of a hospital building at Raipur on January 16, 2023. 
• 2023: Signed a cancer care department management agreement to set up and operate the cancer care department at its Agartala Hospital on September 1, 2023.