Yashoda Hospital becomes first Indian firm to acquire land in metaverse

Hyderabad: As the virtual reality world has begun to mark its footprint, Hyderabad's Yashoda Hospital group has upgraded its presence in the metaverse. The hospital group has informed that they have acquired space at 'decentraland,' a popular metaverse platform. With this Yashoda Hospitals, becomes the first in India to step into this venture.

"Since the beginning, we have aimed to be progressive as a group, we have many firsts to our accolade, including clinical excellence, infrastructure, and innovation. We have been early adopters of digital technology that adds value to our ecosystem, from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 and now Web 3.0. We believe the future will be driven by core technologies like the blockchain and Web 3.0, moving from a centralized to a decentralized ecosystem," said the director, Dr Abhinav Gorukanti in his statement.

The virtually existing metaverse enables the users to build communications and connect with users in ways beyond our imagination. In metaverse platforms like decentraland, users will be able to buy virtual plots in Nexistingon-fungible tokens (NFTs) through the MANA cryptocurrency.

The Yashoda hospital group will be offering health care services and employment opportunities via metaverse.

"Setting up our presence on decentraland is the first step towards our efforts and acceptance of decentralized tech, we will continue to upgrade and invest in making our digital infrastructure future-ready," also added the hospital authorities.