Dr Devi Shetty-led Narayana Hrudayalaya has opened Aarogyam, a screening centre for tech workers at an IT campus in east Bengaluru. Apollo and Manipal Hospitals, too, have launched campaigns promoting regular screenings amid rising lifestyle diseases among working professionals, including among the city’s vast tech workforce.
Corporate hospitals see preventive healthcare as a new business model, offering subscription-based check-ups and insurance policies tailored around scans and personalised wellness packages for specific age groups. Manipal Hospitals said its records show about a 32% increase in preventive health screening over the last year.
Apollo Hospitals, in its latest Health of the Nation 2025 report, said that preventive health checks have risen from one million in 2019 to over 2.5 million in 2024 – a 150% increase in just five years. “This reflects a growing shift in public awareness and proactive engagement with preventive healthcare,” it said.
The report released on Monday also zeroes in on three urgent health challenges: fatty liver disease, postmenopausal health decline, and childhood obesity, emphasising the need for early personalised interventions and lifestyle-based care models.
The hospital’s ProHealth Preventive Health checkups found that 26% were found hypertensive and 23% diabetic despite being asymptomatic out of 2.5 million individuals screened. Doctors said the report reveals a silent epidemic—”millions are living with undiagnosed chronic conditions despite showing no visible symptoms.”
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Narayana’s Aarogyam, a pilot project, promises 90-minute, no-fasting diagnostics for gut health, thyroid and baseline metrics for people below 35 years of age. Other age groups, 35-40 years and under 40 years, will have heart, liver and lung screenings, including cancer risk profiling.Dr Shetty said that despite the comprehensive health benefits, many don’t avail them. “If you ask any corporate employee, despite all the benefits they give, how many employees actually go for a health check-up, it’s not even 30%. That’s because the hospital experience is awful, including in my own hospital.”
He added that Aarogyam aims to fill this gap, offering advanced diagnostic tests at a fraction of the usual cost.
Preventive Health Director at Apollo, Dr Shree Vidya Venkatraman, highlighted that while screening exists at multiple levels, younger generations and corporate employees often underutilise available health checks due to fear, lack of awareness, and outdated or poorly implemented corporate policies.
“Corporate health policies are still following a 30–40-year-old template of tests, often irrelevant today. Most large companies go through aggregators, who prioritise numbers and lower costs over meaningful health outcomes,” Venkatraman said, adding that the leadership mindset needs to change where health should not be treated as just another CSR checkbox.
Karthik Rajagopal, chief operating officer (COO) at Manipal Health of Manipal Hospitals, said that along with customised packages for medical conditions, the hospital is witnessing increased awareness in vaccination packages. “We have also designed vaccination packages, as adult vaccination is becoming more critical with an increased awareness of this category across Tier 1 cities and is also seeing demand for home-based screening requirements,” he said.
Cardiac care remains a major concern for those seeking preventive care. Data from Narayana showed that in 2024, 1,826 individuals were detected with minor heart attacks below the age of 18 years out of 1,41,049 that were screened. Similarly, in the 19-39 age group, 1,339 with minor attacks were detected.
Dr Shetty said many are talking about the sudden cardiac arrests happening across the country. “There is, however, nothing called sudden cardiac arrests; there is always a pre-existing disease. But also, those who suffered these attacks were asymptomatic,” Shetty said, emphasising that if individuals go for regular screening, these can be avoided.
