Healthcare Radius – August 2019

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14 AUGUST 2019 | HEALTHCARE RADIUS


COVER STORY



  1. Anuj Arenja,
    managing director &
    CEO, QI Spine Clinic


Anuj Arenja, managing director & CEO, QI
Spine Clinic, on how the group is redefining
back pain management through non-
surgical treatment

BY RITA DUTTA


1


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I Spine Clinic is one of the
ventures of Arenja Holdings, an
investment house that spe-
cialises in the promotion and
incubation of greenfield healthcare ventures.
QI Spine Clinic, established in 2011 to provide
advanced back pain diagnosis and treat-
ment, has 22 clinics across four cities in India
and is looking at fortifying its presence to 80
centres in the next five years.

What were the initial thoughts behind
starting QI Spine Clinic in 2011? Did you
think of having a chain of clinics, right at
the inception?
We started working with patients with back
pain in 2011 from a clinic at Churchgate in
Mumbai. We did not have the branding of
‘QI Spine Clinic’ then. Many of our patients
at that centre had been advised spinal
surgery for severe back pain and had come
to us for a second opinion. This was exactly
the plight that my brother, Nithiij, who is

Bye-Bye


Back Pain

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