Hospitals for promotions use either advertisements or P.R or both after taking in to consideration the target customers, media type, budget and the sales promotion. The health care field has become very competitive. Although one fourth of our population stays in urban India, three fourth of the total doctors have engaged themselves in this part. Word of mouth plays an important role during information acquisition stage of the customers, as there are no objective performance measures to judge the various alternatives available to them. Therefore satisfied past patients of the hospital can bring more number of patients to that hospital than a number of advertisements.
In a competitive market place the images of the firms will affect their competitive standing. One factor that is likely to have significant impact of the health care scene is the growing hospital chains such as Apollo, Birla health centers, etc. artificial heart transplants and other complex operations although are few in number and generate a small potion of the total revenue, they help in generating word of mouth which health care providers are actually interested. Many of these companies are spending a lot in corporate advertising for image building.
Government Hospital:
They do not undertake major promotion programmes and hence are not very popular among the masses.
Private Hospital:
They undertake extensive promotion. Along with this they undertake massive complex operations which if successful create a good brand value of the hospitals.
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