Interview
Ameer Ali
SUTHARYA HEALTHCARE AND DIAGNOSTICS, A STRONG
ADVOCATE OF AGAPPE PRODUCTS E
Sutharya Healthcare and Diagnostics headquartered at Perinthalmanna, Malappuram and spread across central Kerala with several branches emphasises on providing quality, reliable and costeffective healthcare, and diagnostic service to the needy. Established in 2003 by Ameer Ali (Chairman and Managing Director, Sutharya Healthcare and Diagnostics), the group has now more than 25 branches in the central Kerala region. Sutharya Healthcare and Diagnostics aspires to be an iconic point in the field of laboratory diagnosis in a cost-effective manner uncompromising on quality. True to its tagline ‘redefining your diagnostic experience’, Sutharya Healthcare and Diagnostics provides premium facilities and infrastructure at its laboratories. Excerpts from an interview with its Chairman: Tech Agappe: Sutharya Healthcare and Diagnostics has now grown into a chain of laboratories from a single laboratory with a wide presence in central Kerala. You have now more than 20 years of experience in the diagnostic field. Now tell us, what made you enter into IVD industry?
Ameer Ali: I was very much inspired by my elder brother who was a pharmacist. I made my decision to pursue my higher education in the same and thus joined for B Pharm course at Mysuru, Karnataka. In 1994, I entered intothe diagnostic field. Our first lab was established in a place called Pulamanthole, Malappuram district in the year 2000 and then later with branches at Pattambi, Palakkad. A friend of mine, Mr.Ashraf E K who now works abroad helped me to establish the laboratory. Among other things, what inspired me to enter the diagnostic field was the unprofessional way in which laboratories were functioning till then. The amenities of most labs then were minimal and most often it had some side business apart from the laboratory like a photostat machine or a phone booth back in 2000. Semi Automatic machinery at labs was not even heard of. I thought, why we can’t bring some professional touch to it and introduce a new model. Our laboratory was the first in the region to do purely laboratorial service without any side business and in a professional manner with sophisticated equipments. Also, I found out that in Kerala, there is a dearth of genuine and authentic diagnostic centres.
Bibu B. Punnooran
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TECHAGAPPE
Mr. Ameer Ali
OCTOBER - DECEMBER 2020
While we established our first laboratory in 2000, it was named as Microlab and We had rebranded as Sudharma Specialty Laboratories when we went on expanding branches. However,we opened 27 branches in Malappuram, Palakkad, Calicut and Thrissur dis-
