The study revealed that private equity investments in India's healthcare sector are predominantly concentrated in urban hospitals of the southern and western states. As a result, rural and underserved areas remain largely neglected.
Mapping private equity investments in Indian healthcare over the last eighteen years has shown that the vast majority of these investments have been directed towards multi-specialty hospitals in urbanized southern and western states. Meanwhile, extensive rural and sparsely served regions have attracted very few or no investments at all.