Budget 2025, Feb. 1 -- Hospital stocks gained focus in Saturday's trading session after the government declared plans to set up daycare cancer centers in all district hospitals over the next three years, with 200 centers to be launched in the 2025-26 period, as announced by Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman.

Shares of Krsnaa Diagnostics rose by 5%, Max Healthcare increased by 4%, Jupiter Life Line Hospitals saw a 3.09% gain, GPT Healthcare climbed 2%, Indraprastha Medical Corp. went up by 4.04%, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise experienced a 1.80% rise, and Thyrocare Technologies was up by 1.1%.

However, despite these gains, the performance of hospital stocks was mixed overall. During her presentation of the 2025-26 Union Budget, marking h...