With a definitive foot forward, during Pulse 2026, Maharashtra signed 15 MoUs - 3 MoUs with Rs 720 crore in investments and 12 strategic partnerships, hosted 130+ speakers from government, academia, industry and multilateral institutions, and produced the Maharashtra Declaration that will define a decade of healthcare transformation. This is what institutional ambition looks like at scale.
“PULSE is not just a conclave; we are setting the direction for how healthcare in Maharashtra will evolve over the next decade.” Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis said.
The MoU signings conducted in the presence of Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis represent the most strategically dense healthcare partnership portfolio ever assembled at an Indian state-government platform. The Royal College of Physicians & Surgeons, Glasgow and the University of Leeds formalised long-term academic partnerships with Medical Education and Drugs Department (MEDD), Government of Maharashtra, covering clinical training, research, innovation hubs, and workforce development - making a Maharashtra medical qualification globally benchmarked by design, not aspiration.
Manchester Metropolitan University's Institute of Sport committed to curriculum delivery and Centres of Excellence in sports and exercise medicine.
On the clinical and technology frontier, the partnerships signal exactly where Maharashtra's healthcare economy is heading. 4basecare signed for a Precision Oncology Centre of Excellence - bringing AI-driven cancer intelligence and the OncoTwin platform directly into Maharashtra's care ecosystem.
Medtronic, one of the world's largest medical technology companies, committed to a Stroke Centre of Excellence. Kindshell Healthcare signed for nursing innovation and global nursing readiness. AR Innovations brought AI-enabled dermatology diagnostics and a UK knowledge exchange framework.
SimX committed VR simulation infrastructure for medical training - the technology-enabled pedagogy that the next generation of clinicians demands. Cognisouls Healthcare, the DEAR Foundation Switzerland, and the Gravittas Foundation completed a strategic portfoliospanning palliative care, psycho-oncology, children's mental health, and train-the-trainer programmes that will multiply capability across the system.
The Tourism Department's cross-border MoU with the Cyprus Chamber of Commerce positions Maharashtra as an international destination for integrated healthcare and recovery - a medical tourism economy in the making.
The investment numbers carry equal strategic weight. Nipro Pharmapackaging committed expansion of Rs 200 crore as a direct industrial investment into Maharashtra. Pharmax committed Rs 470 crore and Savvycare Rs 50 crore - both anchored to Maharashtra's upcoming Bulk Drug Park, which will be built by Ramky Infrastructure under a public-private partnership (PPP) model with Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC).
Behind every MoU sits a policy architecture that has been years in the making. Maharashtra today runs 17,000+ medical seats across undergraduate, postgraduate, and superspeciality programmes - the largest state medical education ecosystem in India, producing graduates who serve hospitals across the United States, United Kingdom, Middle East, and Southeast Asia.
