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Anant Kumar
CEO and Founder
LifeSpring
Private Sector & Development author
Anant Kumar launched the first LifeSpring Hospital in December 2005. Before this, he worked in social and rural marketing and social franchising. He continues to serve on high-level expert forums and committees to strengthen healthcare provision. He has been recognised as a TED India fellow and has won prestigious entrepreneurial and social entrepreneurship awards. HE is a management graduate from IRMA, and has a diploma in Health Care and Hospital Management from Symbiosis Institute, Pune, as well as certification in social entrepreneurship from INSEAD, Singapore.
LifeSpring
LifeSpring Hospitals is an expanding chain of low-cost maternity hospitals that serves low-income women and newborns in India. It is a 50-50 joint venture between HLL Lifecare Limited (an Indian government enterprise) and Acumen Fund (a venture philanthropy organisation based in New York), a partnership which began in early 2008. LifeSpring currently has twelve 20-25–bed hospitals in Hyderabad, does 500 deliveries a month, and has done 20,000 to date.