OP- Pohjola Financial Group is to open four new private hospitals in the country, said a press release.

According to the release, OP Pohjola will also expand to new fields of specialised medicine and occupational health. The nationwide hospital network is to be built under the Pohjola brand.

OP Financial Group expanded to the health and wellbeing market from the beginning of 2013 when it opened Omasairaala, its fully owned hospital in Helsinki specialising in orthopaedics.

“The next two hospitals will be opened in Tampere and Oulu, followed by Kuopio and Turku. Once the new hospitals are ready, most of our customers will live less than two hours from our comprehensive offering of health services,” said OP's Executive Chairman Reijo Karhinen in the release.