India's Apollo Hospitals quarterly profit rises on higher healthcare services demand
Feb 10 (Reuters) - India's Apollo Hospitals Enterprise
APLH.NS reported third-quarter profit that beat estimates on
Monday, driven by higher demand for its healthcare services.
The hospital-chain operator's consolidated net profit rose
51.8% year-on-year to 3.72 billion Indian rupees ($42.5 million)
for the quarter ended December 31.
Analysts, on average, expected 3.51 billion rupees,
according to data compiled by LSEG.
($1 = 87.4470 Indian rupees)
(Reporting by Anuran Sadhu and Kashish Tandon in Bengaluru;
Editing by Pooja Desai)
((Kashish.Tandon@thomsonreuters.com; 8800437922;))
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