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Revolutionary Ceramic Coated Knee Replacement performed for the 1st time in South India at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai

Headed by Dr. Vijay. C Bose, Senior consultant Orthopedic surgeon the team of Orthopaedic surgeons at Apollo Speciality Hospital, Chennai have performed a revolutionary Ceramic-Coated Knee Replacement Surgery for the first time in South India.

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Our Chairman Dr. Prathap C Reddy conferred with the Padma Vibhushan Award !

We are delighted to say that our Chairman Dr. Prathap Reddy has been conferred with the Padma Vibhushan award by the Government of India, for his excellence and exceptional service in the Healthcare industry in the country.

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Apollo Hospitals to manage the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital, Republic of Maldives

Marking a new international association, Apollo Hospitals will soon be managing the Indira Gandhi Memorial Hospital located in Male, Republic of Maldives. The agreement to this effect was signed by the Hon’ble Health Minister, Maldives, Ms. Aminath Jaameel and the Apollo Hospitals’ Managing Director Dr. Preetha Reddy, in the presence of the President, Republic of Maldives His Excellency, Hon’ble Mr. Mohamed Nasheed.

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APOLLO HOSPITALS – Only Healthcare Super Brand in India

Apollo Hospitals is the only healthcare organization to achieve the Superbrand status in India. Mr.Eamonn Sadler, Chief Executive of Superbrands Worldwide presented the Superbrand award to Apollo Hospitals at a function held in Mumbai on 17 December, 2009.

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The ‘Apollo Knee Clinic’ launched at Apollo Hospitals Chennai

Reinforcing its image as India’s premier super-specialty hospital, Apollo Hospitals Chennai launched the ‘Apollo Knee Clinic’ that offers a comprehensive solution for knee pain integrating the different elements of managing a knee disorder. The Apollo Knee Clinic was formally inaugurated at Apollo Hospitals Chennai by Cine Star Mr. Sarathkumar and the Apollo Knee Check programme launched by ace cricketing legend Mr. Krishnamachary Srikkanth.

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Apollo Hospitals Chennai ranked First among the Private Sector Hospitals in India by The Week – IMRB Exclusive survey - 2009 !

The Week-IMRB exclusive survey 2009, on India’s top hospitals has rated Apollo Hospitals Chennai as the Overall Best Hospital among the Private Sector hospitals in the country. Apollo Hospitals Chennai has also been ranked the First among the Private Sector hospitals in the country in Orthopedics and Hip Replacement.

Apollo Hospitals at Chennai, Hyderabad and Kolkata have also been ranked Best Hospital in their respective Cities !

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Sir Richard Hadlee launches the Apollo Knee Clinic program, - a 360 degree approach to managing knee pain with the Apollo Advantage, another pioneering initiative by the Apollo Hospitals Group

“Apollo Knee Clinic” will be the first of it’s kind program in this part of the world. Starting from prevention through early diagnosis and intervention, surgical intervention to rehabilitation, Apollo Knee Clinic offers a complete program. Research, inputs from experts in orthopedics and rehab medicine and experience of the entire team at Apollo Hospitals has provided the material required for this program. Where ever possible the protocols and guidelines have been benchmarked with global institutions to ensure that the product is comparable to the best institutions in the world.

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The Government of India releases a commemorative stamp felicitating Apollo Hospitals’ pioneering spirit !

The Government of India honors Apollo Hospitals with the Apollo Commemorative Stamp. This honor is a felicitation of our pioneering spirit, our commitment to healthcare and service to the Nation.

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Apollo Hospitals Website wins Web Marketing Association, USA’s Web Awards in 3 categories !

It gives us the greatest pleasure to say that Apollo Hospitals India has won the Web Marketing Association - USA 's Standard of Excellence WEBAWARD 2009 in 3 categories - Medical, Healthcare and Healthcare Provider, for its website www.apollohospitals.com

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Apollo Hyderabad & Apollo Delhi win FICCI Healthcare awards !

Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad and Indraprastha Apollo Hospitals Delhi win the FICCI Healthcare awards for Excellence in Patient Care and Excellence in Healthcare Delivery. Apollo Hospitals Hyderabad also bags the FICCI Healthcare award for Excellence in HR Practices. The FICCI Healthcare Excellence Awards, were the first of its kind to recognize and honor the good and proactive work carried out by the healthcare providers and State Governments and to improve healthcare services for masses by overcoming the numerous challenges faced by the Indian healthcare industry.

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Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, celebrates medical breakthrough In Cardiac Care

Apollo Hospitals, Chennai, celebrates medical breakthrough In Cardiac Care. Marks the successful completion of 25,000 coronary bypass procedures including 10,000 beating heart coronary bypass operations

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Apollo Opens Hospital at Mauritius

The 220-bed Apollo Bramwell Hospital in Mauritius - a joint venture between the city-based healthcare major Apollo Hospital and British American Investment Co - went on stream on Thursday, the 20th of August, 2009.

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A decade of liver transplantation

Children and adults, who were donors and recipients of liver transplants at Apollo Hospitals during the past 10 years, joined hands to mark a decade of liver transplantation in India. Dr Anupam Sibal, group medical director of Apollo hospitals, said: "Since 1998 more than 200 liver transplants have been done. In the last two years, 128 liver transplants have been carried out with 90 percent success rate and 100 percent in paediatric cases." "This life saving therapy has given hope to thousand with cases of liver failure. Our transplant unit received patients not only from India but from fifteen othercountries including US and Canada," Dr Sibal added. Doctors and hospital staff beamed proudly, as they recollected the journey of each of the patients that had received "not an organ but a new lease of life" at the event held at the Indraprastha Apollo Hospital Delhi.

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Apollo Group reaches yet another landmark

Apollo Health Street has acquired Zavata, a leading BPO in North America, thus becoming a major global player in the Healthcare Business Process Outsourcing space.

 
Nationwide survey by 'The Week' magazine ranks Apollo Hospitals Delhi and Chennai as top hospitals in India in private sector

Apollo Hospitals Delhi and Chennai were ranked as the top two private sector hospitals in India in the overall category, for attracting overseas patients as well as for cost effectiveness and friendliness of staff, in a nationwide survey conducted by the popular magazine 'The Week'.
 
Apollo REACH Hospitals launched by the Prime Minister of India

The Prime Minister of India Dr Manmohan Singh launched the Apollo Reach Hospitals on Sep 5 2008 at Chennai at a glittering function graced by the Chief Minister of Tamilnadu Dr .M.Karunanidhi , Union Minister of Finance Shri. P. Chidambaram and Union Minister of Health Dr. Anbumani Ramadoss

The first REACH hospital at Karimnagar, Andhra Pradesh and the foundation stone for the hospital at Karaikudi, Tamilnadu were launched. Apollo REACH Hospitals aim to make world class healthcare accessible to people even in remote areas of the country. Apollo REACH Hospitals would be 100-150 bedded multispecialty facilities in tier 2 and 3 cities across India and over the next 24- 36 months; over 200 such Apollo REACH Hospitals all over the country are to be set up.
 

Apollo Hospitals among world's top 50 local dynamos

Apollo Hospitals, India is the only hospital group that features in the world's top 50 Local Dynamos list, according to a new study by the global consultancy firm, BCG - the Boston Consulting Group. According to this study, by many measures, the BCG 50 local dynamos are already outperforming established global industry leaders.

 
Transplant Centre

The Apollo Center of Excellence for Transplants  is a service oriented establishment driven by patient needs, expectations, and complexity of clinical issues. The Transplant Centre has been established with a view to providing  multidisciplinary state-of-the-art tertiary level services in transplantation and allied fields under one roof.

Spectrum of Services available at Transplant Center

Liver Transplants
The team of  hepatologists and transplant surgeons have established India’s first Liver Center. It is equipped with high-end technology to perform precision surgery in this newly developed modality of surgical treatment. We perform live donor and cadaveric liver transplantation for children and adults with acute and chronic liver failure. With more than a 200 livers transplanted in the years gone by, we now perform 6 -8 liver transplants every month with success rates on par with international standards.

Kidney Transplants
The thrust of our program is on live related donor and cadaver kidney transplantation for adults and children with end stage kidney failure. Laparoscopic donor nephrectomy is being increasingly used. The stringent infection control practices, immunosuppressive protocols and proactive vigil for complications and their prompt management make the service a huge success.

We perform nearly  60 liver transplants and near 100 renal transplants each year.

Hepatology, Gastroenterology and Gastrointestinal Surgery
Prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases of the digestive tract, liver and pancreatico-biliary system in children and adults is at the core of this centre with more than 1600 admissions each year, along with more than 200 endoscopies conducted in the same period of time. The centre offers state of art endoscopic procedures for gastrointestinal bleed, gastrointestinal cancers, foreign bodies, obstructive jaundice, pancreatitis and feeding techniques. It has provisions for MARS and various modalities of treating liver cancer like surgery, RFA, chemoembolisation, percutaneous injections are available. The gastrointestinal surgeons manage major gastro-intestinal surgical problems of the intestines, pancreas and hepatobiliary tract including cancers, many of them through Minimal Access surgery.

Nephrology and Urology
With more than 1500 nephrology admissions and over 1500 urological surgeries each year, the center specializes in all aspects of nephrology providing personalized healthcare services like renal biopsies, critical care nephrology, hemodialysis and peritoneal dialysis. The dialysis unit provides not only conventional hemodialysis but also CRRT, hemofiltration, hemoperfusion and plasma exchanges (plasmapheresis). More than 20,000 patients receive dialysis on an annual basis. The centre offers comprehensive urological services in the form of lithotripsy, endo-urology, TUNA etc . Laparoscopic urological surgeries are also performed.

Bone marrow and Corneal Transplant Services
Bone Marrow Transplants are performed to treat malignant conditions like Acute Myeloid Leukaemia, Lymphatic Leukaemia, Myeloma and Hodgkin's disease. Specific cases of solid tumours and genetic disorders like Thalassemia have also benefited from this treatment. The BMT unit has expertise in both Autologous and Allogenic bone marrow transplants.

 
 
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