The ambitious healthcare foray that this legacy business house had charted out is struggling to make it out of the incubator. The group had sounded out a clutch of US hospital chains for potential tie-ups, but enthusiasm on the other side was muted. Word is the top brass even reached out to an influential healthcare patriarch, who politely declined the overtures.


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