Gautam Adani announces ₹60,000 cr investment for healthcare 'revolution'

Billionaire Gautam Adani said on Friday his family will invest Rs 60,000 crore in healthcare, proclaiming the sector needs “entrepreneurial revolution” and that “evolution” was not enough.

Adani, in an address to leading surgeons in Mumbai, laid out a roadmap to overhaul Indian health care. He called for an “entrepreneurial revolution” in medicine, backed by technology, empathy and Rs 60,000 crore ($7.2 billion) in philanthropic capital.

He announced the creation of Adani Healthcare Temples, which will be 1,000-bed integrated hospitals initially set up in Mumbai and Ahmedabad.

The hospitals will be designed in partnership with US-based Mayo Clinic and have a medical ecosystem based on artificial intelligence (AI). They will merge clinical care, academic training and research to set global benchmarks in affordability, innovation and scale, he said.

The healthcare vertical, funded by the family’s earlier Rs 60,000-crore pledge for health, education and skills improvement, seeks to fill systemic gaps rather than compete with existing institutions. Adani called for convergence between technology, management, and medicine. He promised investments in modular and scalable healthcare infrastructure, especially to tackle pandemics.

“India is facing a spinal epidemic,” Adani said, citing back pain as the country’s leading cause of disability. “We cannot rise if our people cannot stand.”

Adani urged medical professionals to join this transformation by building spinal diagnostics that use AI, mobile rural operating theatres, or next-gen surgical centres.

“We entered healthcare not because it lacked momentum, but because the momentum was not enough,” he said. “This is not evolution. It’s a revolution.”

Adani’s move signals his group’s diversification beyond infrastructure and energy into impact-driven sectors. The healthcare foray comes as part of a broader $100 billion capex plan over the next five years to build what he calls the “spine of India’s rise."